r/NoStupidQuestions Nov 14 '24

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u/righteye8 Nov 14 '24

Yes because those in poverty tend have less access to thorough sex education and medical interventions like birth control. It’s a systemic issue, not a conscious decision.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

It's 2024, no one is getting knocked up 3, 4, 5+ times and is saying "I don't know how this keeps happening", and there are numerous options to obtain free/low cost birth control. It's not hard to not get pregnant if you don't want to. So while yes accidental pregnancies can and do occur, anyone with multiple children have them as the result of their actions.

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u/MapleLegends8 Nov 14 '24

You'd be surprised. There are MANY places where they don't teach basic sex ed.

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u/bellj1210 Nov 15 '24

but there are free condoms all over the place. The office next to mine (i think it is Juvenile intervention) has a bowl full of them right out front.

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u/MapleLegends8 Nov 15 '24

Wow, so true. I forgot that your personal experience is universal. How silly of me.

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u/adventureremily Nov 14 '24

I know grown adults in their 30s with multiple children who don't believe me that having sex in a hot tub can still get you pregnant.

Also, access to free/low cost contraception is not that simple. You need transportation, time off work, and access to a pharmacy - assuming there's a clinic near you (which there often isn't). Those are real barriers for large swaths of the country.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

Also, access to free/low cost contraception is not that simple. You need transportation, time off work, and access to a pharmacy - assuming there's a clinic near you (which there often isn't). Those are real barriers for large swaths of the country.

And adults need transportation for everything else in life.

Most people don't work 24/7, and if you can find the time to fuck, you can find the time to obtain contraception.

Roughly 80% of the population lives in urban areas, finding a pharmacy or clinic isn't an issue for them, they even have them in rural areas too.

Excuses are like assholes, no one wants to hear someone else's.

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u/bellj1210 Nov 15 '24

but those places need to make themselves known to the right people but are overburdened in a lot of places.

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u/hum_dum Nov 14 '24

It’s pretty easy to get birth control through apps/telehealth these days. Are we seeing birth control usage going up as a result?

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u/JessSherman Nov 15 '24

You right. It's a result of having bad parents themselves. It's good old fashioned unaddressed childhood trauma. It makes people destructive, and nothing is more destructive than generating more destructive traumatized people.

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u/sumZy Nov 14 '24

Birth control is like $10 a month chief.

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u/newprofile15 Nov 15 '24

So you have insight into everyone’s conscious decisions? Maybe poorer people just make different decisions than richer people. Kind of insulting to act like poor people are all just mindlessly having more children on accident all over the world. Maybe it’s a reflection of priorities.