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Why ‘child-free lifestyles’ are being targeted in Vladimir Putin’s Russia
Lifestyle The Russian parliament is working on a law that would ban what the authorities describe as the harmful promotion of a child-free way of life, with heavy fines for "childlessness propaganda"a close ally of President Vladimir Putin said.Vyacheslav Volodin, the chairman of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, said parliamentarians had started examining legislation to outlaw what he described as propaganda on the internet, in films, in advertising, and in the media that encourages "a conscious refusal to have children".Putin, who has portrayed Russia as a bastion of "traditional values" locked in an existential struggle with a decadent West, has encouraged women to have at least three children, saying that will help secure the future of Russians.Birth rates down, mortality upThe issue has taken on greater urgency for the authorities after official...
STAR Lifestyle’s Barbara Gonzalez, 79
Lifestyle Karina Bolasco - The Philippine StarMay 30, 2024 | 12:00amMANILA, Philippines — Writer and former advertising executive Barbara “Tweetums” Gonzalez-Ventura died on May 28 at the age of 79 due to complications from breast cancer.Her column “From the Heart” was a popular fixture in The Philippine STAR’s Sunday Lifestyle Section.In it she wrote about her daily trials and triumphs, her vocation of making rosaries from beads she would collect and life with her late husband, Loy Ventura, whom she met and married when she was 73 and he was 79.Gonzalez formerly worked in advertising – most notably for Coca-Cola Philippines –and was the author of the books How Do You Know Your Pearls are Real?, On Single Parenthood and Other Ms. Adventures and We’re History!, a collection of her columns on ordinary life.In 1991...
