Family planning
Social conservativism

Family planning has reduced the burden of childbearing from women. Now having to raise fewer children than before, women are no longer as economically dependant on their partners. As such, they are not necessitated to stay in marriages, due to the confidence that they can raise children with less financial difficulty that if they had several children. In order to preserve traditional gender roles, social conservatives seek to reverse the social changes brought by family planning and declining birth rate. They are opposed to most forms of family planning and advocate for larger families with many children. To this end, they sometimes cite the decline of religion or "the family", but as Hans Rosling notes in his book "Factfulness", this has little to do with religious or family values, and are merely "patriarchal values".
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