Martin H. Millard Quotes

It is the patriotic duty of women to bear four children.

Have kids; have a lot of kids. Start early and keep having them.

The biggest development in reproductive biology is the birth-control pill. Nobody ever talks about it, but look at the consequences: demographics; aging populations; the sinking population of Europe, Japan; immigration. It's incredible.

Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon.

Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.

In order to stabilize human population growth, we must prioritize the education of girls, the empowerment of women, the provision of ubiquitous access to the knowledge and techniques of fertility management, and the continued raising of child survival rates.

Watch your Catholic population. They breed like rabbits.

No country has reduced its population growth without resorting to abortion.... Indeed, abortion, legal and illegal, now has become the most widespread fertility control method in use in the world today...

… men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this [childbirth] very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children, why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.

England, we believe, is sufficiently populated, therefore there can be no duty in needlessly increasing its inhabitants; and we think every woman should be as far as possible induced to abstain from entering into marriages from any other motive than that of sincere and earnest love for the man she marries.

I just want to have a lot of kids.

Every time I went to the doctor when I was in my twenties, he repeated the same thing to me: don't wait too long to have children.

In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family.

I think I can allow myself one child - and from then on, I think I would have to adopt. It makes sense not to add to the population problem.

The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.

I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.

A series of studies in the 1990s and 2000s revealed that as women gained more access to education, jobs, and birth control, they had fewer children. As a result, developed countries in western Europe, Japan, and the Americas were seeing zero or negative population growth.

We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I think that is the most ethical way to reduce our population.

I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.

World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size.

I feel very strongly about contraception even though I know people say that, as a good Catholic girl, I shouldn't. But I disagree because I think one of the keys to women's progression in the 20th century is being able to control their fertility.

I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.

I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.

I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did and I do and I will!

We need government policies that will strengthen families and encourage people to have more children.