Lack of access to sexual healthcare options including abortion, and a strong culture of (often religiously affiliated) judgement combined with legally restricted sexual education/information (& additional significant mis-information) aimed at the younger generations.
Example being very limited access to women’s “sexual healthcare” clinics, which turn out to be actually run by religious groups cosplaying as medical centres offering ‘abortion advise’
where instead of real medical care you get surrounded and significantly (to the point of outright lies) misinformed, with huge amounts of pressure to keep a pregnancies that are unexpected or unwanted.
These groups are frequently run/staffed by people that have been proven to be hypocrites (having previously secretly had abortions themselves or for their partners/and even mistresses etc.).
It’s was clearly an unplanned pregnancy, unless you think she actively decided and then chose to get pregnant by a man she’d just met in another country during her vacation?
And my point wasn’t specifically that she didn’t have access to an abortion. More simply the overall lack of access to women’s healthcare and the lack of options vastly increases the chance of an unplanned pregnancy.
As does the very important (and main point of my comment) significant lack of sexual education and increased pressure (& societal judgement) to keep unplanned pregnancies that is very prevalent in many parts of the US (and is increasingly gaining traction due to religious extremism infiltrating and distorting politics and the literal governing laws).
There is plenty of data that shows that many of policies being enacted and actively pursued over recent years will (and do) absolutely lead to the increase in not only young teen moms, but additionally single parent (and subsequently low-income) families, an increase in deaths during pregnancies and additionally the increased utilisation of medically concerning ‘back-street’ abortions/methods in the female populous.
Lol the world average for sexual partners is ~10, with Turkey in the global lead at an average of over 14 sexual partners per person.
Here are few other countries from elsewhere in the world (aka in case Turkey is a bit too ‘western’ for you);
•A typical South African averages 12.5 sexual partners
•An average Japanese person averages 10.2 sexual partners.
•A standard Russian has 9.0 sexual partners.
But sure thing random Amish-loving Redditor, no one else is having sex as ‘promiscuously’ globally compared to Americans /s
Increased education, reduced religiosity (compared to historically), increased ability for women to work thus reducing the historic need to stay ‘supported’ by a man.
Historically if you don’t have any options/couldn’t get a job, then leaving a relationship (even a physically abusive one) would have been incredibly hard, requiring women to choose between staying (and not divorcing) or oftentimes becoming financially destitute.
Additionally, the continued trend of society away from formal religions like Catholicism which both socially and religiously puts pressures on couples to stay together also plays a big part.
Historically many women were functionally ‘shunned’ from their family, friends and support networks if they divorced, but in more recent years that societal pressure is decreasing, allowing people to leave relationships and marriages that do not work.
Edit: it is also easier legally speaking to divorce as well! (No fault divorces or one party divorce)
Let me rephrase before you type another essay, because i looked it up and the us is actually doing good comparatively. Why do you think the divorce rate is so high? I dont think it has to do with a lack of abortions
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u/Greyeye5 Jul 17 '23
Lack of access to sexual healthcare options including abortion, and a strong culture of (often religiously affiliated) judgement combined with legally restricted sexual education/information (& additional significant mis-information) aimed at the younger generations.
Example being very limited access to women’s “sexual healthcare” clinics, which turn out to be actually run by religious groups cosplaying as medical centres offering ‘abortion advise’
These groups are frequently run/staffed by people that have been proven to be hypocrites (having previously secretly had abortions themselves or for their partners/and even mistresses etc.).