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08-26-2010, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by dogsbody70 View Post
So it looks as though there will be self control if always managing to prevent pregnancies.

we have ways to prevent them too but unfortunately too many children are born to young teenagers in particular and apparently our record for transmitted sexual disease is too high.
The thing is though, it's not just that it's easy to prevent pregnancy in Japan (self-control doesn't come into it, it's just that contraception is very easy to obtain), there's no guilt culture or moral obligation to keep the child if you get pregnant. The rate of foreign-fathered pregnancies and actual births of mixed race children might well be staggeringly different as abortions aren't taboo in Japan at all.
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