Coya Conyon thinks:
"My grandfather's generation seldom bothered to get married. My father's did. And mine, why, we're reviving patrilineal surnames." (p. 342)
In 2319 of a different timeline, Time Patrol agent Farness says that he was young during the sexual revolution of the 1960's. His physician on the Moon replies that fashions come and go.
Indeed. Poul Anderson shows us this happening through all of history.
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Kaor, Paul!
And some fads and fashions are so bad they should go, be forgotten!
Testing.
Ad astra! Sean
Also, really convenient and workable contraceptives are a recent invention. Until then, heterosexual intercourse carried a high risk of pregnancy. Those inventions changed the equation.
Humans don't have an instinct to have children.
They have an instinct to have sex, and an instinct to -bond- with children once they're born.
Evolution is a kludge, a random process, and in the conditions under which we evolved, those two instincts were fully sufficient.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I regard contraceptives with revulsion--to say nothing of how they have also been a direct encouragement of infanticide, abortion.
Testing.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: "contraceptives... direct encouragement of ... abortion"
From what I just looked up there *tends* to be a negative correlation between contraceptive use and abortion rates. This is to be expected because contraception reduces the rate of unwanted pregnancy, though other factors might increase or decrease both contraception & abortion at once.
Kaor, Jim!
I have to disagree. From what I have read contraceptive drugs and devices has stimulated the revolting butchery of abortion.
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Ad astra! Sean
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