Question

Why do families in poor communities in less developed countries choose to have large families? What does this suggest regarding policies aimed to reduce population growth?

Answer 1

1. Parents will have large family because the stern reality is that children some times don't survive.
2. Women with formal education are more likely than uneducated, women to marry later and have less children.
3. In some countries women's role is only to be as a wife and mother which may often means to get married in younger age and start having children in a young age.
4. In poor communities there will be a cultural belief to have big families to battle their need for extra labour.
5. Especially farmers whi live on their harvest can't afford to pay extra labour and only depend on themselves and their children.

People are superstitious in

poor communities and believe that children are God given gifts and they do not control birth of children.

7 Inexpensive options for obtaining contraception and health care are in short supply.

• Population could peak before then and at a lower level.
• Population growth rates and average family size have fallen by half over the past four decades as modern contraception has become more popular.
• Average number of children Born to each woman is not higher than replacement fertility that would end population growth.
• Many barriers to a global movement assume that births result from pregnancies.
• Better public understanding of the benefits of child bearing is needed to avoid these obstacles and bring their vision closer.
• Questions arised whether education can bring declines in fertility especially access to a range of contraceptive options.
• History and recent fertility phenomena suggest the likelihood that interest in safely and effectively managing the timing of pregnancy and child birth may be universal among women.
• The value of developing and testing the theory that meeting the needs of women and their spouses for personal control of pregnancy could lead to the end of population growth.