I apologize in advance for going full Morado on this one.
When men went to war frequently what did the women do? Perhaps they raised a family?
Prior to the war, in 1940, women made up approximately 27% of the U.S. workforce. By 1945, this figure had risen to nearly 37%, with about 19 million women employed, accounting for over one-third of the civilian labor force. This surge included over 6 million women who took on wartime jobs in factories, producing essential military equipment.
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In fact birth rates prior to WW2 averaged around 5 kids a family for most Europeans and Americans.
Statement is wrong in both directions. First, your timeline is off. Second, at no point was it 5 kids per family, it was either more or less. And it wasn't the war that was the catalyst for the greatest change, it was the great depression. Prior to 1900 it was roughly 7 children per woman. By 1900, the average had dropped to approximately 3.6 children per woman. During the 1930s, the Great Depression, the total fertility rate (TFR) further decreased to about 2.2 children per woman.
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Like a lot of the Global South today, it has far more religion. Is it oppression. In whose eyes. Some because there might be some improvement. But not to Western madness today. Religion shaping community and in keeping purity, laws, virtue, oaths, and providing status. If we go back in time, there were perhaps more or less kids per family. Because pregnancy was a killer. But the family unit throughout history is how society formed and it wasn't a curse until today. Where it has been decimated into the least home ownership per family in history in the Western World. The least matrimony longevity, marriage lasts on average 3 years today, families have on average 1, or less, or slightly more than 1 kid per family in the Western World.
The above is just word salad. There's nothing to really debate there, it's like you just vomited words in an attempt to make sentences and it didn't work out for you. I did shade one true statement in green even though it didn't have a point to go with it. I will say it wasn't the reason for less kids, it was the reason they had more kids. The higher the rate of infant mortality the higher the attempts at having children. This is true for almost every culture. The green shading was also less true by the 60s and became even less true every year since then.
You sit there spewing it was because women were oppressed, they were property?
Women were property. The Rule of thumb was an actual thing, look it up. Women couldn't vote until 1920 in the US. (Later in France). Women couldn't open a bank account until 1974. Married women couldn't use birth control until 1965, unmarried until 1972. Equal education access, 1972. Equal employment, 1964 (Still being disputed in courts in many states). Women weren't allowed federally protected maternity leave until...THEY'RE STILL NOT ALLOWED FEDERALLY.
Edit: Fixed a run on sentence.
