Japanese officials dehumanize childless women as an incentive to breed

Evidence

To enlarge the working population in Japan, women are pressured to have more babies and chastised for not doing so. The former prime minister of Japan, Yoshiro Mori, suggested that women who bore no children should be barred from receiving pensions: “It is truly strange to say we have to use tax money to take care of women who don’t even give birth once, who grow old living their lives selfishly and singing the praises of freedom” (McAvoy, 2003). One politician expressed the need for baby production in stark, dehumanizing terms when he characterized women who limit their childbearing as “recalcitrant baby-making machines” (Pollitt, 2007). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2645 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Japanese officials punished childless women as selfish freeloaders — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2645; Peasant cruelty to childless elders drives couples toward having children — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1098; Nazi marriage loans rewarded reproduction to breed and control women — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 65 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Japanese officials punished childless women as selfish freeloaders #expands (0.92) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2645