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> Which conservative, traditionalist societies are you thinking of.. Legitimacy laws were still prevalent across the western world until the 1970's. Furthermor
by krona 4y ago
> Which conservative, traditionalist societies are you thinking of..
Legitimacy laws were still prevalent across the western world until the 1970's. Furthermore, abortion was basically illegal in Britain until 1967.
In the year that Legitimacy ceased to have legal meaning in Britain, the fertility rate dropped below 2, where it remains today.
- ookdatnog 4y agoI'm not saying that traditional values don't affect fertility rate. My comment was responding to the claim > It more and more seems like "traditional", conservative societies are more successful on aggregate. Which is a much more general statement. I see no evidence for that claim. Evidence that traditional values affect fertility rate does not provide evidence for this claim; for that you need at least some examples of traditional conservative societies outcompeting their more liberal contemporaries in some meaningful way.