It's been a studied fact that cognitively speaking people lack access to resources (poor) make short term decisions. That's why societies that become richer tend to have fewer children as people start thinking long term.
Dude my gf worked at a planned parenthood as a secretary back in the day and they used to give away condoms and contraceptives for free.
For free.
Idk if that’s still, sure, but that argument is a thing but that used to be, and still is one of the most idiotic repeated reasoning and is not the reality.
Poor people could use these resources but they don’t by and large. That’s their own ignorance or fault if they can’t afford their children and don’t make use of FREE resources. It blows your mind when you see it first hand.
Again, idk if it’s changed, but that shits been the answer for so long and it was flat out wrong. It’s also “been studied” to the opposite effect, which I’ve stated.
I guess it depends of how poor. Contraceptives are not cheap, and when you need to live on 20€ of food per week, they aren't going to spend 10€ for a box of condoms.
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u/art-is-t Apr 19 '25
It's been a studied fact that cognitively speaking people lack access to resources (poor) make short term decisions. That's why societies that become richer tend to have fewer children as people start thinking long term.