Anti-natalism

Madeleine Bunting has a strongly worded article on what she calls anti-natalism. It's powerfully written, but sadly, her conclusion is cliched: it's all consumer capitalism's fault, and choice is bad, bad, bad. Her examples are also overblown: eg, the woman, seven months pregnant, who has not had one person say she was lucky to be expecting. Whoever these people are, they don't live in my universe. And how can she write this whole article without mentioning the positive steps that Britain has taken over the last eight years? Still, she writes a good polemic.

Meanwhile, in letters, someone points out that while she doesn't personally like McDonald's, when her kids were growing up, it was the only restaurant that made them feel welcome.