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In Britain the term "Malthusian" can also refer more specifically to arguments made in favour of family planning, hence organizations such as the Malthusian League. [8] Neo-Malthusians differ from Malthus's theories mainly in their support for the use of birth control. Malthus, a devout Christian, believed that "self-control" (i.e., abstinence ...
The neo-Malthusian controversy, comprising related debates of many years later, has seen a similar central role assigned to the numbers of children born. [27] The goal of Malthusian theory is to explain how population and food production expand, with the latter experiencing arithmetic growth and the former experiencing exponential growth. [ 28 ]
The book used a neo-Malthusian argument plus Galton's eugenics as the theoretical framework for a quantitative analysis of population dynamics. The population problem arose -according to Carr-Saunders hypothesis- from the fact of having high reproductive rates among primitive people with low mental and physical qualities.
Following the death of his father in 1907 he became Secretary of the Malthusian League and served as its President 1912 until 1952 (its demise). In 1914 he met Margaret Sanger who became a strong influence on his views. [3] In both 1921 and 1925 he served as President of the Neo-Malthusian International Conference (London, 1921: New York, 1925).
She shared the concern of Malthusians that overpopulation led to poverty, famine and war. [30] She would return to Europe in 1922 and become the first woman to chair a session at an International Neo-Malthusian Conference, [31] and she organized the Sixth International Neo-Malthusian and Birth-Control Conference that took place in New York in 1925.
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The Malthusian League was a British organisation which advocated the practice of contraception and the education of the public about the importance of family planning. It was established in 1877 and was dissolved in 1927.
With Bernardus Hermanus Heldt and Jan Martinus Smit, he co-founded the Nieuw-Malthusiaansche Bond (Neo-Malthusian League or NMB) on 2 November 1881. [14] The society's aim was to reduce poverty by balancing family size with the available means for subsistence, with information on contraception a means to this end. [15]