Biography of family planning

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A new way to find our highlights and stories — Try it now. This blog article is part of the 20speople season — a season of exhibitions, activities and events from The National Archives that explores and shares stories that connect the people of the s with the people of the s. Aimed at married couples, it became an instant bestseller and went through a number of editions throughout the s.

The book was controversial, causing a ripple through polite society with its advice on sex and intimacy in marriage. At the start of the decade the child mortality rate, for children under the age of five, was c. Broadly, supporters of eugenics believed that people could inherit mental illness, criminal tendencies and a predisposition to poverty.

Eugenic ideas were, however, played out throughout the book. Despite the book being famous for its advocacy of birth control, specific methods of contraception were not referred to in any depth Stopes reasoned that the pulling out method or coitus interruptus was not ideal as it left the woman unsatisfied footnote 9. Stopes was a visionary in many ways.

During the s, Stopes pioneered ways to discuss family planning and provide birth control to the general population. Its theme was the impotence of a husband and the ignorance of a wife about how to conceive a child. That same year Stopes wrote a screenplay based on themes of the book, a cautionary tale about the importance of having fewer children in order to avoid a life of destitution and unhappiness.

Despite this, the Page Hall Cinema in Sheffield decided to allude to the original name of the film in its promotional material. The clinics provided birth control advice and various barrier-type contraception devices, such as the cervical cap. In fact, Stopes tried to distance herself from illegal abortion. In the early 20th century eugenics was more mainstream than it is today, with people from all walks of life, including the aristocracy, the clergy, socialists, conservatives and an array of leading intellectuals supporting its principles.