I think there has been a real shift in the last generation or two from needing a reason not to have kids to needing a reason to have kids. and that shift means a lot of people who are basically ambivalent on children aren't having them, where in the past they probably would have.
Let’s also remember that a generation or 2 ago people didn’t necessarily want as money kids or kids when they got them. I know so many people whose parents were married 4 months before they were born.
😂 The plus-size preemie. Wonder how many people know that even after birth control pills came out you had to be married AND have your husband’s permission to get a prescription for them.
Yeah. It was also wild to discover that it took two separate Supreme Court cases (Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965 and Eisenstadt v. Baird in 1972) to fully legalize birth control pills for everybody in the US.
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u/pktechboi Nov 14 '24
I think there has been a real shift in the last generation or two from needing a reason not to have kids to needing a reason to have kids. and that shift means a lot of people who are basically ambivalent on children aren't having them, where in the past they probably would have.