She is the author of Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering and Begetting: What Does It Mean to Create a Child? The question of begetting—that is, to bring (a child) into existence ...

In her new book, Begetting: What Does It Mean to Create a Child?, van der Lugt locates in Hillesum’s words no less than “the beginning of an ethics of creation,” an earnest wrestling with ...

Editor’s note: Arsalan Iftikhar is an international human rights lawyer, global media commentator and author of the book “Islamic Pacifism: Global Muslims in the Post-Osama Era.” Imagine for ...

Naidu has been arguing that begetting more children will lead to a demographic balance of young and old. “Having less than two children leads to the rapid decline of the young population.

An inebriated man in a Nalanda village beat his wife to death on Sunday night allegedly for not begetting a son. Upendra said when he reached there, he found his daughter dead with thrashing marks ...