Did owner-occupation lead to smaller families for interwar

Of course, not all young wives living as Mum’s contemporaries in Lee were so caught up in the traditional ways as she was. The advance army... were the couples moving into the new `spec’ built housing going up for sale around the edges of Lee in the ‘thirties. These families... were already well aware of the absolute need to limit family size. How else, on railway workers’ wages or bank clerks’ salaries, were they to be sure of keeping up their mortgage payments. The joy of sex was sacrificed in the efforts to be `safe’. The thick male or female `rubber goods’ that had to be surreptitiously inspected beforehand and carefully washed, dusted with powder and hidden away afterwards were barriers in more ways than one.