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Factors Affecting Fertility |
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Starter |
| What has the Germany 2006 World Cup and fertility rates got in common? |
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| Read more about the link here. |
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Activities |
 Factors Affecting Fertility Worksheet |
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| There are a range of factors that affect the fetility rate: |
Status of Women |
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Level of Education |
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| Professor Danny Dorling, an expert in human geography at Sheffield University, said the changes in recent years were being driven by the change in university admissions during the 1980s.
"In that period many more women started to go to university which meant that they ended up delaying having children. |
Employment Opportunities |
One in five women in America are remaining childless throughout their lives, twice the proportion of a generation ago. "The proportion of childless women has been increasing steadily by about one percentage point a year," said Jane Dye, the report's author. Dye pointed out that the figures do give a clear indication of women's decision to have children later in life to allow them to complete their education and establish a career. |
Type of Residence |
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Religion of Parents |
| Extremely low birth rates in most of Europe have fueled concerns about population decline, yet one segment of the continent's population—Muslims—continues to grow. The increasing number and visibility of Muslims in Western Europe, juxtaposed with the low fertility among non-Muslims, has led some Europeans to worry that the region will eventually have a Muslim majority, fundamentally changing Western European society. |
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Fertility Decline in the Netherlands Among Women Born in the Netherlands, Morocco, and Turkey, 1990 to 2005 |
Level of Available Health Care |
| Have a look at www.gapminder.org and use Gapminder World to graph children per women against medical doctors per 1000 people (in the Health section). |
Machismo |
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Perceived Cost of Having Children |
| The cost of bringing up a child has rocketed by over a third in the past five years, according to research published today which shows that childcare and education are together the most expensive items faced by parents.
A typical family now pays an average of £186,032 to raise a child from birth to the age of 21 - which amounts to £8,859 a year, £738 a month or £24.30 a day - according to the UK's largest friendly society, Liverpool Victoria. |
Pressure from the Government |
| Our research proves that Polish women still want to have babies," she explains. But they also want to carry on working.
So she has drawn up a package of measures, including increased maternity and paternity leave, tax breaks for businesses, flexibility for the self-employed and enabling workplaces to establish kindergartens and nurseries in the hope that her compatriots can be persuaded back into bed. |
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Review |
| Discuss hwo you have ranked the importance of the factors that affect fertility. |
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