They say that in times of difficulties more children are conceived as a human survival response.
It has been proven that under exceptional circumstances or misfortunes the reproductive behavior of society is altered. In New York, for example, more children were fathered in the weeks after 9/11, while in Cancun, births were shot nine months after the passage of Hurricane Wilma.
While today children are planned (mostly) and the decision to have them does not only happen to have time without TV to father them, the blackout in Barcelona nine months ago brought its consequences, or rather, their offspring.
Obviously, the fault of the low birth rate is not the fault of electricity, but in this case the lack of light seems to have helped.
In Vall de Hebron, the reference hospital of the affected area, births have increased by 7% in the last two weeks, to 40 weeks of the great blackout suffered by the city of Barcelona in which one third of the population It ran out of light.
Demographers say that this baby boom of the generation of the great blackout or “off generation”, as they have called it, has a significant impact on birth rates. If so, many governments would resort to the blackout of cities in search of an effective solution for the few births.
