Diogenes Extends Longman

On Off the Record, Catholic World News weblog, the great Diogenes writes on the Philip Longman article discussed below in The Outbred. (Looking at the word now, it probably needs a hyphen between "Out" and "Bred," but these things get written on the fly.) He writes, in The Liberal Baby Bust, of a matter Longman doesn't cover:

Longman asserts the notion -- which common-sense supports -- that by raising their offspring in an offspring-friendly environment begetters tend to beget begetters. What he doesn't touch on is the possibility of converse causality: that married couples who raise more than two children in these times, whatever their inherited ideology, will encounter hardships and animosities of a sort that tend to push them away from the progressivist mindset -- which is notoriously offspring-averse.

He also writes about liberal Catholicism's effect in these matters, which is not good but also naturally self-destructive.