ANTH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Inequality, Population Ageing, Sexual Intercourse
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Giving birth and raising children around the world: reproduction and fertility. Reproduction: having children, in demography, total number of births and deaths in a population. Fertility: natural capability of giving life, in demography, measurable production of offspring. Fertility rate: average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime. Mode of reproduction: predominant pattern of fertility in a culture, 1. Fertility control: indirect: suppress ovulation (long breastfeeding, low-fat diet, work and exercise, direct (induced abortion, infanticide, 4. Fertility control: more direct methods: herbs, induced abortion, infanticide, 4. Birth and death rates: developed countries=low/negative, developing countries=high, 2. Fertility control: direct- science and medicine, (contraception, abortion, in vitro fertilization) Pronatalism: an ideology promoting high fertility rates, or many children , labor needed. Culture shapes fertility: sexual intercourse is culturally determined, where to begin, where, how, with whom. Fertility decision making: family level, factors affecting desire of children, 1.
