HDFS 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Breast Cancer, Birth Weight, Cardiovascular Disease
25 Jan 2018
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In western nations, having children is a matter of individual choice: 90% of us adults have or plan to have children depending on. Financial circumstance: career goals, values, health conditions, advantages, personal fulfillment, being a responsible and mature adult, caregiving and support in old age, continuing the family name. Strengthening couple relationship: disadvantages, responsibility for child"s wellbeing, role overload. Loss of privacy: no sleep, no time, how large a family, average number of children has declined in western nations since 1960, more effective birth control, economic reasons, divorce. Fewer children more compatible with women"s careers: low ses mothers tend to have more children. Lower access to contraception, medical care, etc: career paths, different educational trajectory, american mothers are getting older. Increase in older women having children, especially 30-34 and 35-39: advantages, more emotionally mature, time to travel, do things before children. Financially stable: disadvantages, declining reproductive capacity (female and male, even if older males, problems with males.
