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When I was a child about 40 years ago there was a slogan "हम दो, हमारे दो" which translates to "We are a couple, we will have two children". Then in my teens it
by bluesmoon 5y ago
When I was a child about 40 years ago there was a slogan "हम दो, हमारे दो" which translates to "We are a couple, we will have two children". Then in my teens it turned to "हम दो हमारे एक", ie, "We are a couple, we will have one child". It was on TV, in print ads, on the sides of buses, everywhere. There was also a huge move to make contraception easily available to every woman in the country. Then in the 90s TV was privatized and it all disappeared.
- paxys 5y agoIt wasn't privatization that caused the disappearance of these ads, but the fact that the government decided to take a step back from pushing family planing after the disastrous efforts of the Indira Gandhi government. Resources/education/contraceptives/abortion are still easily available to people, just without the dystopian ads or forced sterilization campaigns.
- _hypx 5y agoThe whole thing was just fearmongering. Many other countries have seen huge drops in fertility rates without any heavy-handed methods.