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Baby Doomers and Who Gets to Have Kids? Creating a Family in an Age of Uncertainty. Join us at the Frontline Club for a screening of Baby Doomers, a documentary directed by Nicholas Ahlmark examining the sharp global decline in fertility rates. From primary school closures in Brighton, UK, driven by soaring housing costs, to pioneering conversations surrounding reproductive choice and tubal ligation in Nairobi, Kenya, the film explores the complex financial, social, and environmental forces reshaping communities and transforming women's lives worldwide. Anna Louie Sussman's book "Who Gets to Have Kids? Creating a Family in an Age of Uncertainty" asks, in this era of unprecedented opportunity for women, soaring inequality and a changing climate, who gets to have kids, and why? John Burn-Murdoch is the chief data reporter for the Financial Times and has analyzed economic, demographic, and social shifts through a data lens. Together, the speakers will unpack the widening gap between the ideal of family life and the precarious economic realities facing Millennials and Gen Z today. They will dive into how structural inequalities, systemic financial insecurity, climate anxiety, and shifting gender norms dictate who can afford to build a family—and who is opting out.

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