1950 births

effects of Thalidomide as some patients had nerve damage in their limbs after long term use. In the early 1960’s the drug was found to be associated with birth defects, damaging the development of unborn babies, as it was not understood that these drug molecules could cross the placental wall, severely affecting the foetus. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the drug thalidomide affected over 10,000 babies and thousands of fetal deaths worldwide. The affected babies typically suffered from…

The amount of effort from going to school and work can be stressful enough, adding a baby on top of that could impact a woman’s life in a way that may consume her will to work or go to school. Birth control, at least the pill, has not been readily available for single women up until the recent decades. Birth control can reduce the chance of a woman conceiving a child, some methods more effective and intrusive than others. While other forms have been passed just by word of mouth and proven to be…

Pro’s about giving birth control to teen girls without a prescription. Evidence indicates that the more available birth control is, the less likely people are to have abortions and unintended pregnancies (Should Birth Control Pills Be Sold Over The Counter). You don’t need a doctor to tell you whether you have one of the two biggest risk factors for the pill: You know whether you are over 35 or smoke (Should Birth Control Pills Be Sold Over The Counter). I’m pretty sure that if the pill were…

(Comstock Act | United States [1873]). One of the activist against this law and who firmly believed women should have the right to decide if she wanted and when she wanted to conceive was Margaret Sanger. Sanger was passionate about women have accesses to birth control and she dedicated her life to making it…

Another factor that might have an effect on functional birth order is the sex of the children and the order in which they are born. If a family has two girls then a boy the boy will often be treated similar to that of an older child because he is the first born male. The same rule for youngest first born males also applies to youngest first born females. In both of these cases, the youngest child of the different sibling sex will act similar to the oldest child or may even act like an only child…

history of birth control goes back as far as 3000 B.C. when condoms were made out of fish bladder or animal intestines. In 1916 Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn with contraceptives that she smuggled from Europe. At this time “birth control was a radical idea that challenged conventional notions of women’s sexuality and reproduction” (483). Before 1916 both genders struggled to get birth control. In 1873 The Comstock Act allowed mail carriers to confiscate birth…

“During the first minute of your time reading this, an estimated 255 babies were born. During the same minute, an estimated 107 people died…This is an overage of 147 people, increasing the global population by around 80 MILLION every year” (Chernoff). Now if that piece of information doesn 't surprise you, let me try to explain in a different perspective. Modern man first appeared on earth 200,000 years ago. Reproduction was so successful that by year 1850 we had created 1 billion people. That…

pivotal public health achievements in today’s history. Did you know that between 1800 and 1900, family size declined from 7 to 3.5 children with the help of education and contraceptives? Previous to birth control movements, distributing information and counseling patients regarding any type of birth control was illegal under federal and state laws. During this time period, there was little wide spread knowledge about many medical conveniences including time of ovulation, fertility period as well…

weeks and 31 weeks, it is found that those born at 22 weeks only have less than 10% chance of survival, while those at 31 weeks have almost a 100% percent chance of survival (Slattery & Morrison, 2002). This information shows that the closer a preterm birth gets to full term, the more likely the child is to survive without defects. It also represents that the further away from full term you get, the more likely the child born is to have defects, due to not being able to develop properly. It is…

topic because the debate as to what can prevent underage child-bearing has been so controversial. Throughout the early 1900’s we seen a typical trend in women being old enough to get married, to then decide to have children, steadily change. By the 1950’s change in the typical women’s social stature took off. Women were now working, going to school, and being more independent than staying home and raising families which statically indicates this is also the time where there was a historical peak…