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Re:America’s urban rebirth is missing actual births by munificent on Thursday July 18, 2019 @11:02PM (#20475873)
> Millions of dirt poor immigrants raised children in the city just fine, and tons of working and middle class people were born and raised there.

What choice did they have? Birth control wasn't widely available until the 60s.

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Re:America’s urban rebirth is missing actual births by mercutio2 on Friday July 19, 2019 @10:53AM (#20479121)
Hormonal birth control wasn’t widely available until the 1960’s.

But effective condoms were widely deployed to the non anglophone armies in World War One, and had existed long before then.

It’s true that there was a theocratic campaign against all birth control from the 1920s that finally succumbed in most countries in the 1960s, but that’s not all of history.

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