1.Female Literacy a)Main observation: countries with low fertility rates have high literacy rates and vice versa. Tthe fertility rate of a country is thus inversely proportional to female literacy rate. At the literacy rate of 60%‚ fertility rate is about 7.72. At the litaracy rate of 100%‚ fertility rate is about 1.21. b)Cost of having a baby explicit short term: Birth and pre-natal expenses long term: Housing Food Education Transport Clothing Healthcare
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Data Source: The 1961 Fertility Survey The information on the reproductive history of Italian women collected in the 1961 general census are described in section VI of the census form‚ “Information on the number of children-ever-born to married‚ widowed‚ divorced‚ or separated women legally belonging to the family”. The section has two parts. Part A‚ called “Information on marriage”‚ takes into consideration each ever-married woman living in the family‚ reporting the date (month and year) of her
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Do you know how you were born? Do you know how you came to be? The reproductive system is the system that made that all possible. Without the reproductive system you wouldn’t have been born. In order to produce offspring‚ the male and female reproductive systems have to be different. Each system has different parts‚ problems and care. Each system have different purposes‚ the male reproductive system’s function is to produce sperm‚ while the female reproductive system’s function is to produce ova
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Teenage pregnancies have suddenly become an epidemic in our generation. This resulted to teenage mothers dropping out of school and ending up on welfare‚ barely able to support their child. In worst cases‚ teenagers who give birth die through the ordeal‚ as their bodies are not prepared to handle childbirth. So why do teenage girls get pregnant? There are a number of causes to why this is so. Firstly‚ teenagers themselves are responsible for the increase of teen pregnancies. The lack of knowledge
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Teenage pregnancy is a serious issue in our society today where people become pregnant because they are not informed. The United States had the greatest amount of pregnancies. Teenage pregnancy affects not only females but males as well; it causes serious health and education problems. “Nearly 4 out of 10 girls become pregnant at least once before the age of 20.” () Most teens get pregnant because they want to know what it feels like to raise a child or because they see others with children and
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Abortion “I’ve realized that mostly everybody that is for abortion is already born” –Ronald Reagan. For many years there has been different people taking different walks of life that has different opinions of abortion. For some people abortion is never wrong‚ for others abortion is O.K‚ and for the limited few- abortions is never right. Many women in the world have abortions due to several reasons: financial needs‚ social needs‚ family/relationship problems‚ and religious values. Whatever the
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The Great Sperm Race This documentary retraces the journey of conception scaled up to human size‚ from the sperm production to the fertilization of the egg. There are over 250 million human sperm cells in the testicles waiting for the muscle contractions to expel them through the urethra (ejaculation)‚ but only a few thousands will enter the fallopian tubes‚ and only one will get to fertilize the egg in the woman’s body. In the documentary‚ Dr. Allan Pacey compares the excursion of sperm as a
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“How Many Fathers Are Best for a Child?”‚ by Meredith F. Small is an article about multiple paternity. This article addresses a tribe in Venezuela who believe that their children have multiple parents. Their beliefs are that after conception‚ a mother should continue to have sex as much as possible. The mothers often have sex with many partners because it is impossible for the husband have all the sex required to help build the fetus. These other partners are then referred to as secondary fathers
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When a man does any sort or drugs including smoking cigarettes and drinking any kind of alcohol‚ it can affect his sperm in his reproductive system. Many think it’s only the women who are pregnant with the child can affect the child’s health but while researching this topic I have found that to be false. “When certain drugs enter the testicles through the bloodstream‚ a man’s sperm count is lowered and the sperm’s motility or ability to swim is diminished. Damaged sperm can cause a pregnancy to
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Abortions have become popular to the industry. About 43% of American women will have one or occasionally more than one abortions during their lifetime. Women’s centers and hospitals perform more than a million abortions per year. Most abortions are done on women under the age of 25. Majority of abortions are done for teenagers. Abortions are obviously in great demand. Most of the causes of abortions for women are due to personal and medical problems‚ and abusive sexual acts (rape pregnancy). The
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