Meet the ‘elite’ couples breeding to save mankind
With global birth rates in free fall, Silicon Valley’s ‘pronatalists’ are aiming to halt the decline – by having as many babies as possible
Babu, who hopes to join or create a pronatalist organisation in the UK, says it is still ‘niche’ here but gaining ground on both the ‘swashbuckling intellectual Right’ and the more family-focused and Blue-Labour-tinged segments of the Left
- Telegraph Magazine,
- Telegraph long reads,
- Childbirth,
- Silicon Valley,
- Elon Musk
At the beginning of March, Aria Babu quit her job at a think tank to dedicate herself to something most people have never heard of.
‘It became clear to me that people wanted more children than they were having,’ Babu says. ‘Considering this is such a massive part of people’s lives, the fact that they were not able to fulfil this want was clearly indicative that something was wrong.’
