Yes but I want people to see my abortion=eugenics thread.... to further drive into people's minds that abortion=eugenics.... because it is lol. I don't know how it is in the UK but in the US they try extra hard to push abortion amongst minorities because it is part of a eugenics agenda.
Ok, honestly I'm not sure it's as big of an issue in the UK, ethnic minorities aren't targeted with regards to abortion. However there is an encouragement from the government via various campaigns to decrease the amount of kids people have.
Everyone would get child benefits, it used to be £20 per week to go towards the cost of milk and nappies. All classes and nationalities claimed this money and many such as my parents would put the money in a savings account so it would reach a decent some of money by the time I was 18. I used it to buy my first car, travel, university expenses etc.
The conservative government under David Cameron reduced this amount, for the first child you'll get £20 per week and the second child you'll be entitled to £12 per week. If you have more than 2 children, you will not be entitled to more money. So people with more than 2 children have no monetary help to aid them with their child expenses unless they're on social benefits (welfare).
To me this is an attempt to discourage people from having kids, they're trying to control or reduce the population by making it increasingly difficult to raise a family. Most people live on credit cards because they just can't afford the daily demands and upkeep of a family home.
Thankfully I like to think I live within my means and I only have one child so I'm not really affected but I have friends with 3 kids and they're struggling.
Because the child benefit is for everyone I don't think it's an issue of 'ethnic birth control' but maybe soon there will be campaigns in that regard.
The Asian (in the U.K. Asian usually refers to the Bengali, Indian and Pakistani not Chinese) community is pretty huge, they have large families and there was a period in the 70s and 80s where if women knew they were carrying a girl, they'd abort the pregnancy. Cultrally they prefer having boys and hospital scans would reveal the gender of the baby at the request of the parents. As a result, hospitals in some areas don't disclose the gender of the baby but it's not a widespread practice and most hospitals do at the request of the parents, tell them the gender.
So while abortion isn't encouraged, there is an attempt to lessen larger families and it seems the system is set up to cater and accommodate for small nuclear families. Housing too is now in crisis and there aren't enough affordable family homes, so private companies and foreign investors are coming together to build extortionate 'luxury' apartments which are usually for young professionals and small families...
