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A while back I saw some study said that said women who grow up with a TV in the house have on average, 1 less child than their mother. And this was holding even
by pjdemers 10y ago
A while back I saw some study said that said women who grow up with a TV in the house have on average, 1 less child than their mother. And this was holding even as we go into the 3rd generation of kids with TVs at home.
The Internet, and especially mobile Internet, are like TV * 5. So maybe this is right.
- stephengillie 10y agoThis might have more to do with medical advancements in the past 100 years, than with the social impact of television.
- morgante 10y agoThat sounds more like a confirmation of the well-established link between family income and teen fertility.
- andyjohnson0 10y agoThere is a theory that, in Brazil, the popularity of telenovelas (ie soaps) have directly caused a decrease in the number of children that women choose to have [1]. Quote: "The secret sauce of influence is the telenovela's subtle promotion of extravagant materialism by means of a smaller family as opposed to the relative poverty of large families. It's also had the effect of promoting urban lifestyles." I don't know how directly relevant this is to teenage pregnancy, but there does seem to be evidence for media consumption affecting reproductive outcomes. [1] http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/06/how-brazilian-soap-operas-can-save-the-world/259139/ http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/06/how...