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Mind Map by Beccy Stead, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Beccy Stead
almost 9 years ago
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Falling Fertility
- UK
- fertility rate has fallen from
2.4 to 1.7 over 20 years
- economic growth
- increased levels of further education
- increased levels of further education
- consumer society
- expense of raising children, particularly
child care (around £30-£60 per day)
- expense of raising children, particularly
child care (around £30-£60 per day)
- children change impact on lifestyle
- age of marriage is around 28-30
- age of 1st child is 30
- secular society
- contraception is the norm
- rise in couples choosing to have no children
- increase in same sex couples
- 40% of marriages end in divorce
- infant mortality rate=7
- fertility rate has fallen from
2.4 to 1.7 over 20 years
- Kerala
(South-West
India)
- fertility rate=1.5-1.8
- Compulsory education for women.
Literacy rates=91% compared with
Indian average of 61%
- women have higher prospects (less time)
- more equal society
- contraception becomes less taboo as they learn
- women have higher prospects (less time)
- Dominance of the tertiary sector
in the economy, eg. tourism
- children aren't needed
to work the farms
- children aren't needed
to work the farms
- Successful building of infrastructure
(schools, hospitals, roads and
sanitation since the 1970s)
- reducing poverty-don't need as
many children to support you
- no village is more than 2.5km
away from a health clinic
- reducing infant mortality
- reducing infant mortality
- reducing poverty-don't need as
many children to support you
- average income=$300 per year
- 95% of all babies are born in hospitals
- reducing infant mortality
- reducing infant mortality
- infant mortality rate=10
- India=33
- India=33
- fertility rate=1.5-1.8
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