Birth control was the best invention of the 20th century. Before it came, families were way too big. Poverty blossomed in many parts of the world because families had so many mouths to feed. Nowadays, we got a higher standard of living because we moderate the number of children that we have. Henry Hill realized the importance of birth control long before the modern day and he reaped the benefits. All that bad skin his wife spoke about was partly a result of too many people being born.