Factors causing falling birth rate in UK
- Created by: natalie
- Created on: 22-12-13 14:20
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- falling births
- women's status, pay and rights
- improved status and work opportunities
- more women are postponing the age at which they start a family (average age now 30)
- contraception, abortion and education
- oral contraceptive pills made legally available in 1961
- abortion legalised in 1967
- sex education for young people
- costs and consumerism
- rising costs of living mean parents may limit number of children
- the cost of bringing up a child is thought to be approx. £150,000
- global connections
- some causes of falling births are external to the UK
- e.g. global depression of 1930s led to British people limiting family size
- rising energy costs in the 1970s contributed to UK's ongoing fertility decline
- some causes of falling births are external to the UK
- women's status, pay and rights
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