Changes in the birth rate
How and why the birth rate has decreased
- Created by: Rachel Hedger
- Created on: 13-10-13 15:31
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- Changes in the birth rate
- A major decline in the infant mortality rate
- Improvements in sanitation, water supplies and nutrition
- Mass vaccination was introduced after the Second World War
- Parents did not need to have lots of children to ensure a few survived
- Standards of living increased
- Childhood came to be seen as a special period in our lives
- Having children became expensive
- Could no longer send young children out to work, so did not receive an extra income
- Attitudes towards women's roles dramatically changed
- Women chose to have fewer children, some chose not to have children at all
- Women had more opportunities in the workplace and education
- Now not simply expected of women to want to raise a family and become a housewife
- DECREASED
- 2004 - 34% fewer births than in 1901
- A major decline in the infant mortality rate
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