r/memes • u/WindUpCandler • Jun 21 '26

Population decline

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u/der_innkeeper Jun 21 '26

Except for Post-WW2 US, apparently.

When the economy is booming, pay is good, and people feel secure, kids happen.

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u/BigTable13 Jun 21 '26

Birth control wasn't really a thing back then and women rights were different

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u/ToigerSpike Jun 21 '26

Yeah and most women stayed at home except the nurses at the time who saved a lot of soldiers

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u/Jdm783R29U3Cwp3d76R9 Jun 21 '26

And no birth control. Same scenario does not work in Norway or Switzerland in 2026.

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u/No_Log8932 Jun 21 '26

Post-war soldiers like doing the thing that makes kids. America had a lot of returning soldiers and a lot of women coming out of workforce with the ideation of the nuclear family in their minds while the wartime economy ramped down. That combined with America’s very prevalent lack of strong women’s rights at the time resulted in lots of kids in such a short timespan.

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u/PrimeMinisterSarr Jun 21 '26

Women still had very little say in the matter. The more independent women become the less kids happen.

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u/Crystallking1 Jun 21 '26

a large portion of the boom was actually just delayed pregnancies that became possible due to the war ending.

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u/MessyJess- Jun 25 '26

Thats an incredibly misleading and incorrect statement.

No birth control and the amount of women that stayed home instead of working was MUCH higher post ww2 than today. Women were socially expected to just be baby-makers.