A day without (very many) Mexicans

A “typical” Mexican family in 1930.
The Mexican population fell dramatically between 1910 and 20… not, as some suggest, entirely due to Revolutionary violence, but also given the worldwide flu pandemic of 1918-20 and massive emigration to the United States.

But, by the 1970s, it was beginning to become apparent that Mexico was rapidly acquiring more mouths than it could feed. Between that and the introduction of “the pill” (Mexico’s greatest gift to public health, a close second being the ball-cock… the devise that made indoor plumbing feasible for the masses). As a result, and quite “progressive” for a country dismissed for its alleged “machismo”, it was the first to include a constitutional right to birth control

Which Mexican women and men have taken to much more than one might expect. Where the “replacement rate” of live births is 2.27 per woman, in Mexico it is 1.6… and according to CONAPO (Consejo Nacional de Población), whereas as recently as 2018, a third of women said they had no plans to have children, fulling half say so now.

No chance any Mexican politician would dare insult “childless women”.