Birth Rates
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- Created on: 01-05-13 19:03
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- Declining Birth rates in the UK
- WHY? (last 100 years)
- EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES - Women are working instead of getting married and having children
- Attitudes towards family is changing - other life style choices.
- Contraception and birth control
- Female Emancipation
- - no longer pressure to get married and have kids
- Effect of Productive rights
- It has lowered birth and fertility rates
- Decrease in infant mortality rate
- Health and Education -NHS
- Government policies to protect children - Social services
- Better living conditions
- WHY DOES THIS LEAD TO FEWER BIRTHS? Because they're more likely to survive means people dont have as many
- Economic Factors
- Now they are economic liability (burden) rather than asset. Because they are valued-apollonian image of children.
- Over protected
- Take up more time an effort, there must be fewer of them.
- Children are now a lifetime investment.
- Reasons for slight increase in pop and B rate (10 years)
- More people immigrating into the country - mostly asian - who's fertility rate is higher because of culture
- Strongly religious people - dont believe in contraception e.g. Catholics
- FUTURE consequences of trends in next 10-20 years
- Aging population - imbalanced.
- Decrease in workforce (non -dependents) and increase in dependents.
- WHY? (last 100 years)
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