PSYC 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill, Spermicide, Emergency Contraception
13 Mar 2017
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Imagine 2 couples are shipwrecked on an island in 1700. It"s perfect for them, they have children, and those children have children. Eventually by 1800, there are 224 people living on that island. This causes everything to be rationed, and soon the population will decrease: experts are seeing this happen to deer in areas with no predators. The world"s population is increasing 25 times since year 1 a. d. 1 billion in 1804, 5 billion 1987, 6 billion 1999, 9. 1 billion 2050. If this doesn"t slow down, there will be widespread starvation, poverty and political instability. Also, china had a large population, but it was slowed down by the government"s mandatory birth control. 200 million pregnancies each year, 41% of them are unattended because lack of birth control. 1. 9 births, this is birth rate: women use birth control a lot, 75% usually have their first baby at 23. 1/3 of women who have unintended pregnancies usually have another.
