Re:Australia could become first country to eradicate cervica...
by thaumasiotes on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @03:20AM
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> The pattern was marry early, have children all through marriage, marry late, have children all through marriage, marry late, show obvious signs of controlling fertility.
Western Europe hasn't married early for hundreds and hundreds of years, since long, long before the demographic transition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_marriage_patt...
The demographic transition long predates the pill. The pattern was marry early, have children all through marriage, marry late, have children all through marriage, marry late, show obvious signs of controlling fertility. The first definite case of the demographic transition is 1800s France.
And while Malthus was right as a historian, he was wrong as a futurist. Things have been getting better worldwide since the Industrial Revolution even as population increased.