The aim of this article is to nuance notions of ‘pronatalism’ by applying it as an analytical concept for studying population and family policy Sweden and Finland in the 1940s and 1950s. This endeavour is pursued by analysing the ideologies and practices of three pronatalist non-governmental organisations from Sweden, Finland and Swedish Finland: the Swedish Population and Family Federation (Befolkningsförbundet Svenska Familjevärnet), the Finnish Population and Family Welfare League (Väestöliitto) and the Swedish Population Federation in Finland (Svenska Befolkningsförbundet i Finland, SBF). All three organisations promoted family-friendly policies, emphasised the need for widespread population policy education or ‘propaganda’, and framed pronatalist population policy as a collective issue of the nation or ‘people’, yet with different motivations and framings. Väestöliitto and SBF related the so-called population question to an external threat: the Soviet Union that threatened the geopolitical status of Finland, and the pressure of the Finnish-speaking majority, respectively. In addition, SBF saw that the Finland-Swedes were delusional about their demographic and cultural vulnerability and were hence causing their own demise. Familjevärnet, on the other hand, first and foremost connected family and population policy to the furthering of welfare, solidarity and democracy, primarily within Sweden but also transnationally. Respectively, the organisations also framed motherhood slightly differently. Väestöliitto and SBF portrayed procreation as a civic duty and motherhood as the most important role of women. Familjevärnet also viewed motherhood as an important and natural role for women, yet not as an exclusive civic duty. Rather, it emphasised that all citizens had a duty to contribute to a positive demographic development and familyfriendly society, either through procreation or by partaking in the cost of bringing up children.

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追求产前主义：1940至1950年代瑞典和芬兰的非政府组织以及人口与家庭政策

本文的目的是通过将它作为分析1940年代和1950年代瑞典和芬兰的人口与家庭政策的分析概念，来对“ pronatalism”的概念进行细化。这项工作是通过分析来自瑞典，芬兰和瑞典芬兰的三个促婴主义非政府组织的思想和实践来进行的：瑞典人口与家庭联合会（BefolkningsförbundetSvenskaFamiljevärnet），芬兰人口与家庭福利同盟（Väestöliitto）和瑞典芬兰人口联合会（SvenskaBefolkningsförbundeti Finland，SBF）。这三个组织都倡导了家庭友好型政策，强调需要进行广泛的人口政策教育或“宣传”，并将孕产妇的人口政策定为国家或“人民”的集体议题，但动机和框架却不同。Väestöliitto和SBF将所谓的人口问题与外部威胁联系在一起：分别威胁芬兰地缘政治地位的苏联和占芬兰多数的压力。此外，SBF看到芬兰瑞典人对自己的人口和文化脆弱性抱有幻想，并因此导致了自己的灭亡。另一方面，Familjevärnet首先将家庭和人口政策与促进福利，团结和民主的联系联系在一起，这主要是在瑞典境内进行的，但也可以是跨国的。各个组织对孕产的定义也略有不同。韦斯特里利托（Väestöliitto）和SBF将生育视为公民的职责，孕产是妇女最重要的角色。Familjevärnet还认为孕产对于妇女来说是重要而自然的角色，而不是排他性的公民职责。相反，它强调，所有公民都有责任通过生育或分担抚养子女的费用为积极的人口发展和家庭友好型社会作出贡献。