Fertility, Family Planning and Income

Discuss the declining birthrate in Russia and other countries in the region. What do you think the impact of this decline can have on neighboring countries and regions? Are similar declines happening elsewhere? The declining birthrate is seen all throughout Russia and neighboring countries. A lot is due to many choosing to have less children and also the high mortality rate of younger men. It seems that Europe and the United States are also seeing a decline in the birthrate, but not as bad as

A serious decline in population was a huge factor in the failure of the Roman Empire. Having children and supporting a large family became very unpopular because it was very expensive, and this was worsened by disease and declining food supplies. The U.S. has been undergoing a decline in the birth rate for a long time, and the birth rate could eventually

In Chapter 15: Aging and the Elderly, the U.S. birth rate has been falling for more than a century. It happens because children are more likely to survive into adulthood, and so couple have fewer children. As more women work outside the home, they choose to have fewer children. Greater material wealth and advances in medicine have raised living standards so that people benefit from better housing and more nutrition. The oldest segment of the U.S. population, is increasing rapidly and is already forty times greater than in 1900.

In the 1800s most families had about seven children, then in the industrial era the families had about three or four children. The reason that the average of children dropped in this era was due to couples waiting longer to get married or spacing the pregnancies out. One of the big causes of fewer children in this era was because of contraceptives. Contraceptives were just discovered and many couples realize that it was a very effective method. With families having fewer children their main concern was getting their children educated and have knowledge about the economy, so they would be successful in the real world. Education became more populated this time in history, about 71% of children ages five to eighteen went to school. Women became

Overpopulation is an issue that many persons fail to bring attention, but don’t know the underlying effects that it can have on the United States itself. The hardships of overpopulation, affects the economy, the available of resources, and also the success of the future generations to come. Without much thought, someone may have children not knowing that it can affect the livelihood of the future generations who plan to land that job or that position they were aspiring to get. There are those individuals that continue having children, knowing that they are not financially capable of supporting another innocent child. In result this negatively affects the quality of living. If there are more births, it foreshadows that there are more jobs to be created, which causes employment hard to acquire, nevertheless, causing the economy to make a turn for the

The birth rate is supposed to be increasing these past few years, but instead it's actually been decreasing. A reason for this is that people are having less children at an older age. "During my childhood Catholics in Britain often had six to ten children. Now two is more likely." This quote from Let's Have More Babies is basically saying how most couples would make enough kids to triple quintuple the population, but now only enough kids to replace the mother and father is being made. If most couples start only having 2 kids the population won't go up as much as it would if 6 to 10 kids were being made.

Accordingly, the only semblance of a thesis statement was found half way through the article and does not even cover what allot of the article is about. It reads: “Already, nearly half the world’s population lives in countries with birthrates below the replacement level.” Due to his scatter brained writing style it is hard ascertain what his greater point is. He first talks about the fertility drop in Iran, then randomly compares the rate to New England, then says fertility rates have dropped in Morocco, Syria and Saudi Arabia, then bounces back to Iran but instead talks about the economic implications, then swaps to Russia’s fertility drop, then to the effect of the fertility drop on Japan’s demographic profile, then India’s regional problems, and finally lands on how the US will be hurt by the fertility drop and simply stops there. He has no call to action and makes no effort to wrap his jumble up and tie it all together. His final statement is “In the 21st century, the U.S. could be the slowly aging leader of a rapidly aging world.” The sentence only has to do with less than ten percent of the article and leaves the reader utterly confused. In summation, the style of this article is highly ineffective because it is non-linear and

Similar baby boom occurred during the same time period as fertility rates in Canada, New Zealand and Iceland higher than those in the United States. School of economic thought suggest that the baby boom was caused by the rising of male incomes and falling women's wages. The

Additionally, the population of Caucasian Americans in Texas have the highest birth rates in the state and American Indians have the lowest birth rate. “Allan Johnson (2000) reports in addition to these birth rates, demographers use three hypothetical rates to get some idea of the future consequences of current patterns of reproductive behavior in a population. The gross reproduction rate (GRR) is the average number of daughters that would be born to a hypothetical cohort of women if current birth rates for women of various ages were to remain the same throughout their lifetime. In other words, it is the number of daughters they would have if they went through their twenties having babies at the current rate for women in their twenties, through

America is in a state of emergency. The once fruitful country is experiencing a detrimentally low birth rate. A developed country requires a 2.1 reproduction rate to sustain them,

Even though America does not discourage females from getting pregnant since children are the future, it has become a problem. Most Hispanic families get as large as having five children or more. In the past this was acceptable and maybe even encouraged since we had the land, and necessary resources to provide for all of these children. It is not only the fact that these children are dependent on their parents until a certain age, but there were also the land and resources, meaning jobs, given to the parents so that they could provide for all of their children. Those times are behind us because now the resources are becoming scarce. For example, our land is becoming more concrete than grass or sand, instead of being able to enjoy a walk in an open field, we have gotten used to enjoying the big flashy lights from cities that built on top of those fields. The weather is becoming a mystery to everyone since the climate is changing in unpredictable ways by the fact that we are destroying, and changing the environment in all of the parts of the world. We are slowly destroying our ozone layer by having extreme amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This is because all of the cars assembles run on natural fuel. Coming to our situation at hand so many cars are being driven because there are so many humans alive that need transportation. Overpopulation also came with the fact

I feel that Americas fertility is not at risk. In my opinion, women are having enough children and people should not be worried about a fertility crisis in the near future. “Take out Hispanics, and America’s fertility picture begins to look quite different” (Last, 6). Hispanics are present in the U.S. and they might be having more kids than Americans. Although they are in the U.S., I feel that they should not be counted into population if they are illegal immigrants.

There are many key demographic indicators that make up each country. One of them is the crude birth rate. In Canada for example, the crude birth rate is 11 which is considered low. The crude birth rate is the number of live births per thousand of population per year. When this is compared to the world birth rate it is a little lower. According to the table provided the crude birth rate is a stable indicator. It is stable because it has not changed much in recent years and is pretty even to the region of Canada. Because it is stable, it is also a good environment to live in. The birth rate is low because in Canada there are higher standards of living, in addition to higher education levels. With the total fertility rate being low, that can come in the factor of the low birth rate from the last couple of years. 2.1 children per woman are required to replace the population in the absence of migration. Some key factors of why the fertility rate fell were for 3 costly events that affected a lot of countries. First in the 1930s it had a big decline due to the great depression. In the 1970s it also declined due to the energy crisis. The last major event was in 2011 and it was the Great Recession. With the Great Recession there were high unemployment rates. During the Great Depression period the total fertility rate was declining because there were many couples that used birth control to limit their family size.

Major progress has been made in curbing population growth. The United Nations Population facts August 2010 states that there has been substantial declines in fertility, total fertility in the rest of the developing world(excluding the least developed countries) declined by about 50 per cent between 1970-1975 and 2005-2010: from 5.0 to 2.5 children per woman. Additionally fertility in the least developed countries dropped by 34 per cent since 1970-1975, from 6.7 to 4.4 children per woman. Bangladesh is exceptional with a reduction of over 60 per cent, from 6.9 children per woman in 1970-1975 to an estimated 2.4 in 2005-2010.

A drop in net immigration to the United States is a key factor that has contributed to the aging of the US population. According to the U.S. census Bureau, “there have been a drop in immigration levels in the United States”, which, mean that a smaller share of U.S. population growth can directly attribute to immigration similar to natural increase these can also be related to jobs losses that are normally filled by immigrants such as construction jobs, and manufacturing jobs. Declining fertility rates are also a key factor in the United States. “In the past the 18 and under have exceeded the 65 and older, but now have declined by 190,000 per the Census Bureau in 2010 and 2011 while the elderly have increased by 917,000. Working-age adults, and those in childbearing ages, is also down”. There is also a decline in fertility rates as well, they estimated 4 billion birth between 2010 and 2011 which is down from the 4.2 that was between 2005 and 2006.