neo-Malthusianadj.n.

1879 Malthusian Feb. 2 We confidently rely upon our trusty friends to indoctrinate their neighbours with the views of the neo-Malthusian school.

1911 H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex (new ed.) VI. xii. 594 James Mill was the pioneer in advocating Neo-Malthusian methods.

1934 A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 255 You cannot teach primitive Indians to practise the Neo-Malthusian techniques and expect them to remain primitive Indians.

1967 Listener 20 July 94/2 Mr Eversley..dispelled any doubt in the minds of those listeners who felt guilty about having ‘two children and a motor-car’—apparently anti-social luxuries in the neo-Malthusian wave.

1990 Amer. Scholar 69 278 The neo-Malthusian movement became a considerable impediment to planned parenthood.

1881 J. Bonar Parson Malthus 26 His [sc. Malthus's] prophetic soul has set the Neo-Malthusians in the Malthusian pillory.

1890 Amer. Naturalist 24 759 They consider the propositions of the Neo-Malthusians for limiting the increase [of families] by various artificial measures.

1901 J. A. Godfrey Sci. Sex ii. vi. 253 The main points to be proved by the Neo-malthusian are, therefore, that it is advisable for society to have some means of checking the increase of population in advance, and that the means now at hand are both harmless and effective.

1910 G. B. Shaw Brieux 31 The expectation of the Neo-Malthusians that the regulation of births in our families would give the fewer children born a better chance of survival..has no doubt been fulfilled in some cases.

1962 Punch 3 Jan. 52/1 Some neo-Malthusians have been heard to suggest that the bomb is Nature's Way..of checking..the..over-spawning of our species.

1994 N.Y. Times 5 Apr. c1/3 The debate on population and resources historically has divided neatly into two camps. Neo-Malthusians, principally ecologists and biologists, predicted general disaster unless the population surge was contained. Cornucopians, [etc.].

1885 J. Bonar Malthus i. i. 24 The questions associated in our own times with Neo-Malthusianism.

1910 G. B. Shaw Brieux 31 Just about forty years ago the propaganda of Neo-Malthusianism changed the bearing of children from an involuntary condition of marriage to a voluntary one.

1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. II. vii. 436 The spreading knowledge of birth-control,—Neo-Malthusianism was our name for it in those days—seemed to justify my contention that love was now to be taken more lightly than it had been in the past.

1997 Population & Devel. Rev. 23 471 The ideological belief that informs neo-Malthusianism is that excessive population is a major cause of poverty, and that lowering fertility will facilitate prosperity.