In which the Economist literally refers to stay-at-home parenting as "a 100% earnings decline." Is this what a family culture in a death spiral looks like?https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1063724705591541760 …
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or maybe norms weren’t needed to incentivize children before there was birth control
Birth control opened the door for childless family norms, but was that trajectory necessarily inevitable? My read on the pill's history is that it was initially intended as a tool for planning/limiting family size, not avoiding children altogether — that was unthinkable
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It was not so much about avoiding children as it was avoiding certain children from certain families who were deemed "unfit." I appreciate the blunt honesty of Sanger, Osborn, and Fantham regardless of how delusional and repellent their ideas were.pic.twitter.com/IDbpSQPV70
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Remember that eugenicists were very split on birth control ("good" couples could use it, gasp) & Sanger's central point (people should govern themselves re: BC) was not popular. Very interesting (& messed up) point in history, w/ forced sterilizations + an effective ban on sex ed
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