Donald the Family Planner. How Disney Embraced Population Control

This paper discusses Disney’s 1967 propaganda animation film "Family Planning" and contextualizes it within the fears of world overpopulation evoked by scientist/activists such as Paul Ehrlich in "The Population Bomb". It looks at the ways in which women’s rights advocates, neo-Malthusian activists and proponents of eugenics joined forces in post-World War II America to promote reproductive control campaigns, mostly aimed at third world subjects in key Cold War locales around the world and how Disney seamlessly integrated its pro-family agenda in campaigns aimed at establishing a global vision of what “family” should ultimately look like.