Honestly, the statement seems to me somewhat pulled, but the authors of a study conducted in London by the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) say that soap operas have a considerable effect on the sharp decline in birth rates Produced in recent decades in Brazil.
Statistics indicate that in 1960 the birth rate was 6.3 children per woman while in 2000 it has dropped to 2.3 children per woman.
According to the research, that women want to have fewer children is due in large part to their fanaticism for the novels, especially those issued by the O Globo network, which portray small and unrealistic families.
The data showed that women exposed to them, especially those with lower resources, reduced the number of children, while exposure to Mexican soap operas did not have the same effect.
There is no doubt about the powerful influence that television has on life models, which is very questionable. But the decline in birth rate is a worldwide phenomenon in which I believe that O Globo soap operas, however bad and unreal, have little to do.
In other countries, the trend is the same and is not due to the influence of soap operas, but to other much more complex factors that hopefully were solved simply by turning off the television.
