Women are having children when they are still children themselves and not having the financial stability or not knowing how to care for the children properly, that is until Margaret Sanger decided to do something about it. In her famous speech “The Children's Era” delivered in March of 1925 in New York, NY Margaret Sanger was a birth control activist who wanted to let all people know what she knew, the importance of birth control and how it could change a life. Margaret Luis Higgins on September 14, 1879, in Corning, New York. She died September 6, 1966, in Tucson, Arizona. In between this time she had three children whose names are Stuart, Grant, and Peggy Sanger. She was married to William Sanger and then divorced and remarried to James
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She opened this during WWI and didn't have any problems pursuing her dreams. After she had opened her clinic she was already thinking about the next steps for her business. She wanted to let everyone know about how they can prevent an unwanted pregnancy from occurring. Birth control. She knew that it would be a little bit more difficult but she was determined to make it happen. She decided to do this speech because when she looked around at the world and children around her and nothing was being taken care of. She knew that the children weren’t being taken care of and she didn’t like it so she changed it. She was a woman that knew what she wanted and made it happen in her own way. She wrote books about birth control. She opened a clinic and she cared about making sure the children are taken care of when not many people did. This speech has changed many people in a way that changed it all. Women are having less unwanted pregnancies, there are less unwanted children and more parents knowing what they are doing. Parents can now send their children to school and work during the day to raise their children better. She always says “in order to make a beautiful garden you need to be a great gardener” making that quote mean that if you
She opened this during WWI and didn't have any problems pursuing her dreams. After she had opened her clinic she was already thinking about the next steps for her business. She wanted to let everyone know about how they can prevent an unwanted pregnancy from occurring. Birth control. She knew that it would be a little bit more difficult but she was determined to make it happen. She decided to do this speech because when she looked around at the world and children around her and nothing was being taken care of. She knew that the children weren’t being taken care of and she didn’t like it so she changed it. She was a woman that knew what she wanted and made it happen in her own way. She wrote books about birth control. She opened a clinic and she cared about making sure the children are taken care of when not many people did. This speech has changed many people in a way that changed it all. Women are having less unwanted pregnancies, there are less unwanted children and more parents knowing what they are doing. Parents can now send their children to school and work during the day to raise their children better. She always says “in order to make a beautiful garden you need to be a great gardener” making that quote mean that if you