Growing up in the late ‘50s early ‘60s before the pill and legal abortions was a totally different moral environment. Having sex before marriage was a very high pressure event. Most kids didn’t and those that did were playing a form of Russian Roulette. But, the teenage birth rate was a fraction of what it is today. The proportion of single parent families was minuscule. Public high school day care centers were nonexistent. Mandated welfare costs were a much smaller line item of municipal and state budgets. It was a different world in many ways.
I agree with the sentiment behind your post, but as far as teen birth rates go, those are actually lower today than in 1960. Not because of anything good, of course.
You nailed it.
The more we encourage “birth control” thru artificial contraceptives, the more we facilitate promiscuity, which in turn results in more, not fewer, unwanted pregnancies.
I’m old enough to remember when the Catholic Church adamantly campaigned against the Pill, saying it would lead to millions of abortions.
The left at that time howled in derision.
Ridiculous, they said. Women wouldn’t NEED abortions if they got on the Pill!
And here we are.