Demographics and Diaspora, Gender and Genealogy: Anthropological Notes on Greek Population Policy

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Greece's declining birth rate is said to constitute a ‘problem of national survival’. The state tries to minimize the impact that demographic weakening will have on the well-being of the nation by downplaying the diaspora and by encouraging women at home to produce more babies. Responsibility for the demographic situation has been placed on women, their attitudes toward mothering and their use of abortion. Maternal pensions have been forwarded by the state as family policy and population policy, and criticized by Athenian women as a means of professionalizing motherhood and perpetuating a limited vision of female adulthood.

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