I've been reading some feminist theory lately, mainly Oaken's stuff about how to create a child-friendly nation, and it seems that the right's got a bad contradiction there. On the one hand, they're not willing to craft or pass the sort of legislation that'd make child-bearing easier for career-minded women, thus creating disincentives to large families and slowing down native population growth. On the other hand, large swaths of the American right are deeply unhappy about the ongoing "Mexicanization" of the country, and particularly with the growing ranks of immigrant families with high birth rates.
Assuming they can't shutdown immigration -- and they can't -- wouldn't it make sense for them to support family-aimed legislation so American women would have more children and America's national "character" would be better preserved? Are they really so unhappy with women flooding the workplace, so dead-set against business regulation, or so wholly myopic that they can't support such vital national imperatives as generous maternity leave and guaranteed flextime? After all, the nature of the country -- yawn -- is at stake.
