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Fertility rate scales with poverty. Those earning middle-class wages or higher tend to have fewer kids, or none. Much is linked to education and access to contr
by slothtrop 6y ago
Fertility rate scales with poverty. Those earning middle-class wages or higher tend to have fewer kids, or none. Much is linked to education and access to contraceptives. People will have sex, period. Shaming people for having kids helps at nothing.
> Society used to judge things like irresponsible pregnancies, and everybody were way better off because of that.
Revisionist delusional fantasy. In Western society people had far more children a couple of generations ago, regardless of wealth. The Church pressured this as well.
- kikokikokiko 6y agoYes, people tended to have way more children. And pregnancies out of wedlock were way less prevalent too. Having two Walmart paychecks instead of one per household will make it way easier to raise a family. But nowadays single moms are heralded as heroes... so-much-progress. Such progressive times.
- slothtrop 6y agoThat's one of the dumbest things I've ever read. People laud single moms not because there's a virtue in being single while raising kids, but because it's a hardship, particularly to do well.