PSY 3123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Closed Adoption, Foster Care, Artificial Insemination

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3123
• Professor: Guergana Roumenova Mileva;

Document Summary

Can never have a more profound experience than having. Society can only continue if we keep having children. Having children is a natural part of adult life. How many children a woman will have during her reproductive life. Over past 50 years, significant drop in canadian fertility rates. 2009: 1. 7 children per women: family allowance program in canada began in 1945: gave benefits for children under. 16: supplying resources to make young people confident in their future, encouraging immigration of young people who can have children. Don"t want to sacrifice career to which they are dedicated. More interested in learning about the world than rearing the young. Some people don"t have a partner with whom they want to have children. 7-8% of canadians choose to remain childless for many reasons: A pregnant women have three options (medical termination of pregnancy: adoption, raising the child herself. When a mother causes the death of her newly born child.