| 单词 | neo-malthusianism |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˌneo-Malˈthusianism ˌneo-Malˈthusianism n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > contraception or birth control > [noun] > advocacy of neo-Malthusianism1885 1885 J. Bonar Malthus i. i. 24 The questions associated in our own times with Neo-Malthusianism. 1910 G. B. Shaw Brieux 31 Just about forty years ago the propaganda of Neo-Malthusianism changed the bearing of children from an involuntary condition of marriage to a voluntary one. 1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. II. vii. 436 The spreading knowledge of birth-control,—Neo-Malthusianism was our name for it in those days—seemed to justify my contention that love was now to be taken more lightly than it had been in the past. 1997 Population & Devel. Rev. 23 471 The ideological belief that informs neo-Malthusianism is that excessive population is a major cause of poverty, and that lowering fertility will facilitate prosperity. < as lemmas |
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