Like anything pertaining to organized religion, it’s about social control. Within strict Catholic practice, the only way out of having kids is swearing to poverty, celibacy, and obedience. Emphasis on that last one, since cheap living has evolved into a life strategy, and family planning is a more exact science than ever before. If you have kids, your personal poverty line (now a family poverty line) goes up, and your latitude in taking jobs and shoving them goes down. As I’ve said before, the supply curve for labor has the steepest slope “at the water line,” or the line between solvency and non-solvency.
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