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Dean et al,
Yes, birth control has been (relatively) accessible in the US for decades,
but then again so has public education. However, even in the United State,
we witness abysmal literacy rates in adults and children in people of "lower
socioeconomic status".
If I am remembering my world statistics on women correctly (this was within
the last decade), the correlation between birth rate and literacy among women
is what applies here. And, it applies to birth rates in developing nations,
not the U.S.
Kim
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"The amount of common sense is fixed, but the population keeps gong up."
-unknown
Dean writes:
Birth control is readily accessible to women of lower economic status for
decades in the U.S., and yet this is precisely the group that has the most
children. It is those in the middle and upper classes, with significant
accumulation of wealth (and anyone who owns a car, a home, and furniture
has significant wealth, as poor as they might sometimes feel) who have the
least children.
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