Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ANNALES DE DÉMOGRAPHIE HISTORIQUE, cilt.147, sa.1, ss.137-173, 2024 (Scopus)
This study aims to explore the process of transition of the Turkish women and family in the 1950s and the 1960s, together with its interrelation, interaction and interference with the fertility reduction, contraceptive use, and population policy change. The common theme in the global population control literature suggests that most of the parts of the Third World including Turkey was under the pressure of the “overpopulation discourse” in shifting their population policies from pronatalism to antinatalism in the 1960s and utilized the modern contraceptive methods to achieve the fertility reduction after the policy change. However, this study asserts that the Turkish families had already undergone a structural transition from extended family to nuclear family and the Turkish women started having lesser child from the mid-1950s on, long before the promulgation of the Population Planning Law in Turkey in 1965. Furthermore, they much leaned on the traditional contraceptive methods and abortion rather than the government sponsored modern contraceptive methods to limit the number of births. This article uses demographic data, qualitative surveys, oral sources, and newspapers.