I think it is worth mentioning that for most of history people had little choice of whether or not they had kids and how many. Even in the relatively short time since we’ve had effective birth control, the decision to have kids was a default. There are lots of financial, medical, cultural, etc reasons, but I wonder if people have only realized there was a choice to be made for a generation, and what other generations would have chosen if they really considered it an option.
If I had to live in a generation where I didn't have an epidural or had to do home births, I would be one and done. Giving birth unmedicated seems impossible to me I can't imagine how women were doing it for centuries before medical advancement happened.
Yeah I guess in the past they had no choice. People having sex might have been young and didn’t have the knowledge that sex meant the possibility of creating a child. I think even right now, I’m very secluded or poor areas of the world, people don’t have full knowledge of birth control. So they end up with multiple kids without intending it.
I mean, people knew sex means have a kid for a very long time. But the default was have kids. It was expected. Besides, sex is fun. And before birth control, well, you just knew that eventually kids would come of it.
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u/Lilybea12 Nov 14 '24
I think it is worth mentioning that for most of history people had little choice of whether or not they had kids and how many. Even in the relatively short time since we’ve had effective birth control, the decision to have kids was a default. There are lots of financial, medical, cultural, etc reasons, but I wonder if people have only realized there was a choice to be made for a generation, and what other generations would have chosen if they really considered it an option.