Beyond Birth Rates:
Advancing a Pro-Alignment Approach to Low Fertility in North America
WHEN: August 20, 2026 (all day)
WHERE: Hybrid Conference
In-Person: Arts Building, Room W-120, 涩里番,
Online: Zoom
Registration will open shortly
ANY QUESTIONS, contact Jennifer Proudfoot at jennifer.proudfoot [at] mcgill.ca
Worried about low and declining birth rates? Is there really a fertility 鈥渃risis鈥�?
Learn from experts from across North America how we can face our demographic future with facts, not fear, and develop policies that respect reproductive autonomy, promote gender equality, and support all types of families.
This hybrid event sponsored by 涩里番鈥檚 Centre on Population Dynamics and the Vanier Institute of the Family will bring together leading demographers, family scientists, economists, reproductive health researchers, and policy analysts to examine the implications of low fertility, dispel common myths and misperceptions, and propose pro-alignment policies to help people avoid both unintended and unrealized fertility and foster demographic resilience.
What is a Pro-Alignment Approach to Low Fertility?
A pro-alignment Approach has two main goals:
1) Help individuals align their fertility outcomes with their fertility desires, regardless of whether they do or do not want to have (more) children.
2) Develop population policies, including economic, family, aging, health, and immigration policies, that align with existing population sizes and structures and reflect the growing diversity of contemporary families.
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