[extropy-chat] darfur EP

[Keith Henson]

At 12:36 PM 5/2/2006 +0100, you wrote:
>On 5/2/06, Keith Henson wrote:
><snip>
> >
> > Then why about 40 years ago did the Irish women suddenly cut the number of
> > kids they had about in half?  Particularly why *then* and not ten or 20 or
> > 40 years plus or minus?
> >
> > I appreciate the discussion and any insight anyone can bring to this 
> subject.
> >
>
>Where did you get that figure from?
>The Ireland CSO stats from 1950 onwards disagree.
><http://www.cso.ie/statistics/bthsdthsmarriages.htm>
>
>They show a drop of 25% in 1990 and roughly level from then on.
>
>Ireland used to be in the grip of the Roman Catholic Church which
>banned birth control and encouraged large families. The weakening of
>this control plus more availability of birth control methods plus
>modern education and Irish economic growth would easily explain these
>figures.

Sorry, I was looking at the Northern Ireland figures and don't have the 
link handy.  They were not broken out to religions IIRC.

Keith Henson