SOCL 4701 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Middle Ages, Hutterite, Erectile Dysfunction
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Infertile by physicians the 2002 national survey of family growth showed that 7% of american couples (where the wide was aged 15 44) are infecund/infertile by that criterion hutterite fertility compared with mexico, us, and canada fertility levels per fertility decline most of human history, the fertility rate was high did not guarantee survival because if the mortality rate exceeded the fertility rate the society did not survive high fertility was accomplished via social pressures that were prenatal need to replenish society: societies develop social institutions that promote high fertility confer high status to those who have a newborn utilize religion to interpret children as a blessing marriage is used as a gateway to allow people to attain key positions children were a source of life insurance and cheap labor lower status of women preference for male babies preconditions for a substantial fertility decline.
