GEOG 142 Lecture 8: Geog142Week7Lec.8
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A fecund person can produce children; an infecund (sterile) person cannot. The 2006-10 round of the national survey of family growth (nsfg) showed that. 6% of american couples (where the wife was aged 15 to 44) are infecund/infertile by that criterion. Assumptions: you and partner(s) are fully fecund, first pregnancy at age 15, little less than 9 months per pregnancy, 18 months between the end of one pregnancy and the start of the next. Thus, a woman could have a child every 2. 2 years between ages 15 and 49. Natural fertility may be closer to 6 or 7 children per woman. The hutterites have come the closest with 11 children per woman in the 1930s: Early age at marriage, good diet, good medical care, regularly engaged in intercourse without contraception or abortion. Hutterite fertility compared with mexico, united states, and canada fertility levels. Is calculated choice about fertility valid in marriage: willing. Perception of advantages to limiting fertility: able.
