-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/17/2012 03:00 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 01:11:03PM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote:\ >>> >>> I agree - and in fact, that's why I find it strange (in a good way) >>> that she might actually have a chance of pulling this off. >>> >>> Udhay >> >> I was musing on the effect widespread birth control will have on the >> institution of marriage. > > Don't we already have plenty of data points on that? >
Plenty of birth-controlled marriages around here in the UK! Generally, with birth control combined with a high cost of living, couples tend to put off having children quite late, if at all, feeling they need to be economically established enough to afford some combination of paid childcare and the mother working part time or not at all. There's still some feeling that it's a good idea to get married before having children, and the tendency to have children later reducing this pressure to get married might contribute to what many of my peers are doing, which is to be engaged and living together (eg, married in all but legalities and not having had a big party) for years or decades, with "getting married and having kids" filed under "when we've paid off our student loans and found well-paying jobs, which might never happen". However, another contributory factor to that seems to be a feeling that actually having a wedding will be a major pain in the ass due to having to organise their families, who invariantly have complicated expectations of how their children will get married, difficult issues about whether to send invites to estranged branches of the family, and all that! So how much is down to birth control combined with a high cost of living leading to later babies is hard to divine without proper study! ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBa+wIACgkQRgz/WHNxCGorJQCeMCIU29HGa/If9YretJ4bzVQn G6oAn0qWzoqW+dRFeAYXX5PZMcB36duv =MmYc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
