Oh another reason why adoption was a relevant disposable-income theme in the late 70s is that yuppie life plans of settling down in your mid-late 30s actually showed up before modern fertility treatments to extend the window of practical fertility
This was part of why the development of In-Vitro Fertilization “test tube babies” was taken as significant
But good ol’ adoption was still the go-to. Legalized abortion was already cutting the supply of non-disabled white kids but international adoption was filling in, we took on a lot of kids after the fall of South Vietnam
There was one in Doonesbury who grew up to be the main author-insert character’s hot younger asian second wife in the 90s. Boomers, man
Remember some comic talking about growing up on the Upper West Side in the 80s and being the only non-Vietnamese kid in his bar mitzvah class
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