The Global Story: Pronatalism - Make America procreate again?

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  Hello, this is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Valerie Sanderson with your weekly bonus from the Global Story,

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  which brings you a single story with depth and insight from the BBC's best journalists.

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  Here's my colleague Lucy Hawkings.

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  Today we're bringing you a conversation I had with a family called the Collins,

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  who join me from their farmhouse in Pennsylvania.

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  By any measure, they already have a large family.

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  We are a family of six with a five year old, a three year old,

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  a two year old and an almost one year old and another baby on the way.

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  But they want many more.

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  That's because the Collinses have a unique approach to family.

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  They're pronatalists.

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  I would love to have as many children as I can physically have.

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  So basically until my uterus is removed in a C section that goes a little wrong.

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  For them,

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  it's a solution for what they see as a demographic collapse facing countries like the US and whereas many people will see their approach as extreme,

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  there's increasing evidence that their ideas have traction at the heart of the Trump administration.

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  We want more babies to be born in America.

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  We want more babies.

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