Guardian
•It’s been a grim year for baby-making. But what can the Christmas story teach us about having a child?
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Fertility is in freefall across the developed world.
Australia ’s total fertility rate of 1.5 babies a woman is in line with trends across the OECD that fall below the replacement rate of 2.1 .
Rumbling underneath it all is our despair about life in the newly dubbed “enshittocene”.
But the Christmas child has a way of making every other baby since and any other adventure in reckless hope feel less of a leap of faith. - Justine Toh is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity .
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