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The relevance of this claim being that people primarily had children as a byproduct of wanting to have sex, versus a desire to procreate? Contraception shouldn

• pjc50 3y ago
  > people primarily had children as a byproduct of wanting to have sex Yes? Again, this is so obvious I'm surprised to write it out. > Contraception shouldn’t change the number of people who intend to procreate. And yet it clearly did, largely by giving people the option to not procreate without having to remain forever unmarried and a low-status part of their father's household. It's also preconditioned on education for women, both in learning the mechanics and choices involved in procreation and giving them some economic options other than that. None of this is new or surprising; it's been deliberate policy for years! Here's a discussion of the successful reduction in fertility in Bangladesh, for example https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17441730.2022.2028253 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17441730.2022.2...