TÉKA | Carry the Fire – Why Do We Need Children?

Europe has faced many kinds of challenges over the decades, of which demographic change is perhaps the most important over the long-term. Neither politicians nor experts agree on whether it qualifies as a crisis, but the plummeting global birth rate is impossible to ignore. One important driver of this phenomenon is young people’s tendency to postpone family creation. In the podcast Carry the Fire – Why Do We Need Children? we look at this most urgent issue of our time, a worldwide decline in fertility, and examine the societal changes that have the greatest impact on young people's lives.In this episode, we talk about marriage and how young people’s strategies for starting a family have changed in recent decades. Audrey Unverferth, author, co-founder and former editor-in-chief of the Chicago Thinker, and Georgina Kozma, Head of Research at the Youth Research Institute, discuss these topics.Az MCC Podcast adásaiban érdekes emberekkel izgalmas témákról beszélgetünk. Feldolgozzuk a közélet, a gazdaság, a társadalom fontosabb aktuális történéseit, de olyan kérdéseket is napirendre veszünk, mint például a művészet, a család vagy a vallás. Vendégeink között oktatóink, kutatóink, vendégelőadóink kapnak helyet. Mindenkinek kellemes időtöltést és szellemi feltöltődést kívánunk.