Birth Control and Questions of Civilization

Abstract

In his doctoral thesis of 1987 reached at Alfonsian Academy, Pontifical Lateran Unitersity, Rome, Italy, Author has dealt with question of birth control in rural communities in Hungary before 1945. In Hungary, birth control practices were exercised generally in regions that had stagnated in their development. The system of equal inheritance in Hungarian villages (cf: each child inherits the same amount) did not stand the test of time, unlike in the Swabian villages, where, according to the experience of many centuries, the Norman system of inheritance. In this thesis, based on the results of domestic research on the birth limitation practices in the villages of Ormánság, Sárköz, etc., he came to the conclusion that the way to overcome material and economic scarcity is not to narrow the horizon of the future, but on the contrary, to confront it, to consciously take on the future and fight for it. The paper deals with the evolution of the question in modern societies, in the West as well as the East and states that a civilizationul change was the case. The conclusion puts the question whether the Churches have some responsibility and ability to act.