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> Because chances are people who are systematically impoverished are also not properly educated on how to exercise birth control in effective manners This is n
by zeroname 8y ago
> Because chances are people who are systematically impoverished are also not properly educated on how to exercise birth control in effective manners
This is not true at all. Everyone knows how not to have children, just like everyone knows smoking can cause cancer. People just take the risk anyway. It's basic human irrationality, no amount of education can fix it.
Societal pressure, on the other hand, does have some of the desired effect, even if it's not a "nice thing" like education.
- ceejayoz 8y ago> This is not true at all. Everyone knows how not to have children... I used to help moderate a LiveJournal community called "amipregnant" and this is a laughably false assertion. "Yes, you can get pregnant your first time having sex" and "no, you can't get pregnant from sitting on a toilet seat a boy used" were both pretty common sorts of things we had to tell folks.
- SolaceQuantum 8y agoDo you have proof that societal pressure via shaming results in systematic changes the way you’re describing? From what I remember, there are studies regarding the shaming of women and bodily image that doesnt seem to correlate shaming for misbehavior with better behavior (Ie. Eating less).
- zeroname 8y agoThat's a bit of a special case, because shaming creates stress, while people with an eating disorder eat to reduce stress. Otherwise, I think it's self-evident. There's many behaviors that would've been socially unacceptable a hundred years ago, which today are accepted and far more common. For a somewhat related example, consider inter-racial or (to some degree) inter-religious marriages.
- SolaceQuantum 8y agoIf it’s self evident, then it should be rudimentary to study.
- zeroname 8y agoExactly, so please go ahead and study it.