Re:Miracles You’ll See in the Next Fifty Years (1950)
by jariel on Thursday March 26, 2020 @06:39PM
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Birth control was not widely accessible, reliable, available in pill form etc.
Around this time, due to commonly available forms of contraception: the nature of sex changed, family roles changed, the workplace changed, gender roles changed, birth rates plummeted, demographics changed fundamentally, family structures changed fundamentally.
Re:Miracles You’ll See in the Next Fifty Years (1950)
by Gibbon1 on Thursday March 26, 2020 @06:31PM
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I've read that Japan legalized birth control in the late 40's 10 years before the US did. The post war constitution gave women a lot more rights. And also Japans sudden inability to feed itself left a mark on government policy.
This article has a lot of interesting detail, going back to antiquity. It really started to pick up steam in the mid 19th century.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_birth_control
One interesting detail is that the sudden drop in birth rates that happened around the introduction of the pill also happened in countries where that never became a very popular method of contraception, Japan being an example.