Information on the results of legalized birth control

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Hello,
I was wondering if anyone could direct me to a website (s) that would give information on how the culture has changed since the legalization of birth control. Such as divorce rates, abortion, teen pregnancy, that sort of thing. I tried a Google search and didn’t have much luck.
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Birth control was legalized by the Supreme Court in Griswold vs Connecticutt in 1965. You can use that date as a key starting point, but with caution – birth control was legal in many states before then. Griswold vs Connecticutt made it legal nation-wide.

You should then search on the issues; “divorce rates,” “teen pregnancy” and so on and construct time lines to show if these things have increased or decreased since that date.
 
After that you should look up “post hoc ergo propter hoc”.
 
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Benedictus:
After that you should look up “post hoc ergo propter hoc”.
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It is quite proper to distinguish between correlation and causation. However, a serious study will probably show a complex change in moral values as measured by the factors listed in the original post.
 
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Benedictus:
After that you should look up “post hoc ergo propter hoc”.
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You don’t believe that contraception has had deleterious effects on society that contributes to this current culture of death?
 
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st_felicity:
You don’t believe that contraception has had deleterious effects on society that contributes to this current culture of death?
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I neither said nor implied that. I was warning against falling into a serious logical fallacy.

A lot has changed in our society since the 1960s. I believe that there are multiple reasons for an increase in divorces and other problems. I don’t believe that birth control is the sole reason for the problems that have developed since the 1960s. I don’t even think that birth control is the most important factor. I may be willing to agree that it is one factor; although, I suspect it’s more of an effect than a cause.
 
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Benedictus:
I neither said nor implied that. I was warning against falling into a serious logical fallacy.

A lot has changed in our society since the 1960s. I believe that there are multiple reasons for an increase in divorces and other problems. I don’t believe that birth control is the sole reason for the problems that have developed since the 1960s. I don’t even think that birth control is the most important factor. I may be willing to agree that it is one factor; although, I suspect it’s more of an effect than a cause.
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Just asking! 😃 It was kind-of an ambiguous statement you made there…

I think contraception is one of the original effects of Fallen man. What else so clearly denies the life generating goodness of God that man and woman are meant to image as His creations?
 
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Benedictus:
I neither said nor implied that. I was warning against falling into a serious logical fallacy.

A lot has changed in our society since the 1960s. I believe that there are multiple reasons for an increase in divorces and other problems. I don’t believe that birth control is the sole reason for the problems that have developed since the 1960s. I don’t even think that birth control is the most important factor. I may be willing to agree that it is one factor; although, I suspect it’s more of an effect than a cause.
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You are being a piker. don’t limit it to the 60’s, because what happened in the 60’s was started long before that. As in, 30 to 80 years before that.
 
Most every generation sees the world going to hell in a handbasket and when pressed can offer up proof.

What is true is that there is nothing new under the sun. I have read translations of 4000yr old documents where people said the same thing for the same reasons.

Birth control, abortion, illicit sex, use of drugs and alcohol, none of that is new. The same things have been cited all throughout history.

Perhaps the cause is the same, human nature. People will do what they will do, legal or not. Good people will still be good, and bad people will still be bad.

cheddar
 
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Benedictus:
A lot has changed in our society since the 1960s. I believe that there are multiple reasons for an increase in divorces and other problems. I don’t believe that birth control is the sole reason for the problems that have developed since the 1960s. I don’t even think that birth control is the most important factor. I may be willing to agree that it is one factor; although, I suspect it’s more of an effect than a cause.
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I would be hard pressed to find a competing organizing factor casting such a pervasive ripple of influence than ABC.

I would have to give the acceptance and widespread use of ABC by the Protestant churches and dissident Catholics as the crowning glory for the culture of death and disorder in our society. I believe a logical consequence of legalized ABC is the multitude of societal ills that are symptomatic of the loss of respect for human dignity and open defiance to God in the echo of that demonic primordial cry “I will not serve”.

The same old story, the same spiritual battle lines drawn, just an updated setting with current players and temporal power brokers. And yes, the 1960’s seemed to be the kick-off for the more explicit organized movements against the traditional structures of Judeo-Christian values in our society.
 
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felra:
I would be hard pressed to find a competing organizing factor casting such a pervasive ripple of influence than ABC.

I would have to give the acceptance and widespread use of ABC by the Protestant churches and dissident Catholics as the crowning glory for the culture of death and disorder in our society. I believe a logical consequence of legalized ABC is the multitude of societal ills that are symptomatic of the loss of respect for human dignity and open defiance to God in the echo of that demonic primordial cry “I will not serve”.

The same old story, the same spiritual battle lines drawn, just an updated setting with current players and temporal power brokers. And yes, the 1960’s seemed to be the kick-off for the more explicit organized movements against the traditional structures of Judeo-Christian values in our society.
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:amen:
 
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cheddarsox:
Most every generation sees the world going to hell in a handbasket and when pressed can offer up proof.

What is true is that there is nothing new under the sun. I have read translations of 4000yr old documents where people said the same thing for the same reasons.

Birth control, abortion, illicit sex, use of drugs and alcohol, none of that is new. The same things have been cited all throughout history.

Perhaps the cause is the same, human nature. People will do what they will do, legal or not. Good people will still be good, and bad people will still be bad.

cheddar
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It is, however, a statistically significant fact that significantly more are using birth control through mechanical or chemical means now than there were in 1929, prior to the Lambeth Conference.
 
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Dawn:
Here’s a good article…

catholiceducation.org/articles/sexuality/se0002.html

Dawn
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This is a great talk. Here is an excert for those who have not read it, then Dr.Janet Smith goes on to empirically correlate the widespread use of contraception with all these intra-/interpersonal and societal ills:

"Pope Paul VI issued Humanae Vitae in 1968. It looks like some of you might have been alive and aware at that time. You might remember that it fell like a bomb on the Church and the rest of society. It was a shock to everyone that the Catholic Church reiterated its constant teaching against contraception. Pope Paul VI, in Section 17 of Humanae Vitae, made several predictions about what would happen if contraceptives became widely available and widely used in society.

“He said, first of all, that there would be a general lowering of morality in society. Secondly, Pope Paul VI predicted that there would be a general disregard for the physical and psychological well-being of females by males. The third prediction was that governments would use family planning programs for coercive purposes once contraception became widely available. Pope Paul VI’s fourth prediction was that we would begin to treat our bodies as though they were machines. Well, who was right? The secular world or Pope Paul VI? What about the predictions of the secular world who thought contraception would be so great?”
 
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Benedictus:
I neither said nor implied that. I was warning against falling into a serious logical fallacy.

A lot has changed in our society since the 1960s. I believe that there are multiple reasons for an increase in divorces and other problems. I don’t believe that birth control is the sole reason for the problems that have developed since the 1960s. I don’t even think that birth control is the most important factor. I may be willing to agree that it is one factor; although, I suspect it’s more of an effect than a cause.
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Separating love from sex is no small matter. Do not be fooled. Sexual sins have changed our society in many great ways and continue to help us rocket toward disaster.
 
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