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BABY BUST

I read with great interest the review of Walter Laqueur's book in which Theodore Dalrymple discusses a subject that appears quite regularly lately: Europeans not having enough children to sustain their societies (June 18). In what appears to be a criticism, Dalrymple states: "They [Europeans] seem to care more about the ozone layer and carbon emissions than they do about the continuation of their own species. Or perhaps bringing up children interferes with what they conceive to be the real business of life: taking lengthy annual holidays in exotic locations and other such pleasures." As a woman of childbearing years and of European extraction, I must take exception with …