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People might consciously site economic or other reasons for this, but I think the real reason is that education about birth control has sufficiently permeated t
by orev 8y ago
People might consciously site economic or other reasons for this, but I think the real reason is that education about birth control has sufficiently permeated the country that people are simply making the choice. I suspect that an overwhelmingly large number of past pregnancies were unplanned, while now more of them are planned. We’re just seeing the natural number that would occur when people actually make the choice as opposed to leaving it up to chance as was done in most of history.
The concept of asking people why they are making the choice presupposes that they have the option of making the choice to begin with.
- VelNZ 8y agoI agree. I could list dozens of reasons that I think having children is a bad idea but ultimately, I know that if I actually wanted them, none of those reasons would matter. We are all quite adept at rationalising our wants.
- adventured 8y agoAs one example, the rate of teens giving birth has plunged by about 54% in 20 years (the pregnancy rate has similarly dropped). From 48.8 per 1,000 teen girls, to 22.3. There was a 46% drop in just eight years, from 2007 to 2016.
- mc32 8y agoThere is that and there are other things to distract people as well. People now have pretty much all the porn and entertainment they can watch as well as other internet-enabled distractions in their lives. You could be in the middle of nowhere and have the ability to get distracted by people hundreds, thousands of miles away. I think this helps too.