Fecundism

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Fecundism (word derived from fecundity) is the politics of willfully promoting high birth rate among a group for the sake of enlarging its numbers related to other groups and, consequently, its political influence.

In practice, it is difficult to prove whether a group is conducting fecundism, or if high natality is natural consequence of group's beliefs or actions (and would f.e. exist even if it would not result in higher political influence). Nonetheless, some groups commonly accused of fecundism are:

• religions
  • Roman Catholic Church
  • Islam
  • Buddhism
  • The Quiverfull movement among Protestant Christians in the US
• ethnic groups
  • Kosovo Albanians
  • Bosniaks

Fecundism poses a challenge to democracy, as the one person, one vote principle favours larger groups over smaller, and so the fecundism is certain to give larger and larger influence to the group which chooses it.