SOC244H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Interracial Adoption, Surrogacy, International Adoption
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Our society has a pronatalist bias: having children is taken for granted. Some of the strongest pressures may come from a couple"s parents. Pronatalism: an ideology promoting child-bearing and glorifying parenthood, which may include limiting access to abortion and contraception, as well as creating financial and social incentives for the population to reproduce. There is still a great deal of social pressure to have children, or to follow the social script. The myth of motherhood days that motherhood is an instinct that can fulfill a woman in a way no other experience can. Another part of the myth is the importance of having a child of each sex. Without all four, the family is felt to be incomplete. Baby boomers after second world was then it declined. 350 000 births each year in canada. Migration contributes more than half of the population. Births contribute less than half of population growth.
