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From:International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCONTEXT: The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) program collects data on women's empowerment, but little is known about how these measures perform in Sub-Saharan African countries. It is important to understand whether...
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From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 202)In that same issue of the Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, University of Colorado philosopher Scott Wisor takes up the question "Is There a Moral Obligation to Limit Family Size?" Wisor's main conclusion seems...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 62, Issue 13)HERE'S A FUN experiment: At your next neighborhood potluck, casually float the notion to the Prius-driving, trash-separating couple up the street that they should rethink having another baby because their hypothetical...
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From:People and Place (Vol. 16, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSMALLER FAMILIES, LONGER LIVES, AND AN OLDER AGE STRUCTURE During the baby boom after WWII annual fertility was high. In 1961 the total fertility rate (TFR) reached a peak of 3.54, but then soon began to decline,...
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From:Science (Vol. 245, Issue 4913) Peer-ReviewedNumber of Siblings and Educational Attainment IN THE UNITED STATES, PUBLIC SCHOOLING HAS BEEN SEEN as leveling out the diversity of family influences on educational attainment. However, social science research points...
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From:Archives of Disease in Childhood (Vol. 88, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWhat is known as the One Child Policy was introduced in 1979 as a set of rules and regulations governing the approved size of Chinese families. This was not the first attempt by China to curb the growth of its...
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From:Nature (Vol. 542, Issue 7642) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Malcolm Potts (corresponding author) [1]; Alisha Graves [1]; Duff Gillespie [2] Hans Rosling (1948-2017), physician and epidemiologist, famously upturned assumptions widely held by the public and by the...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 20, Issue 28) Peer-ReviewedThe association between family size and allergic diseases is not a new phenomenon, researchers in Bristol, Belfast and New Zealand have found. Recent epidemiological studies consistently report an association between...
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From:The Social Science Journal (Vol. 34, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the obtaining trends in women's ideal family size preferences and family planning practices in rural Kenya. By using primary data collected from three samples drawn from the Abagusii, Abaluyia and...
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From:Journal of Asian and African Studies (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDepartment of Sociology, University of Akron, Akron, 014, U.S.A. Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, U.S.A. Journal of Asian and African Studies Vol. 32 (1997) pp....
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From:Atlantic Economic Journal (Vol. 43, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedResearch suggests that birth order has a profound influence on personality development, but there has been little research investigating the effect of birth order on a person's occupational choice. A number of...
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From:Human Biology (Vol. 72, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedV. POLO [1] F. LUNA [2] V. FUSTER [2] KEY WORDS: BIRTH INTERVAL, DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION, INFANT MORTALITY, BIRTH ORDER, MATERNAL AGE, FAMILY SIZE, REPLACEMENT BEHAVIOR, ALPUJARRA (SPAIN) Abstract The...
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From:Architecture (Vol. 89, Issue 2)Survey: Only 26% of U.S. Homes Comprise Married Couples With Children The number of American married couples with kids continues its decline, according to a new study. The General Social Survey, recently completed by...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 308, Issue 6930) Peer-ReviewedChildren's sensitivity to allergens appears to decrease as the number of their siblings increases. Skin tests for sensitivity to common allergens were administered to 4,451 children from nine to 11 years old in Munich,...
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From:Diabetes Care (Vol. 25, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOBJECTIVE -- The relationship between parity and risk of diabetes is controversial, and little information is available regarding associations between parity and measures of insulin resistance and [beta]-cell function....
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From:Atlantic Economic Journal (Vol. 21, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe relationship between birth rates and per capita income and birth rates and structural transformation of 63 developing countries were analyzed. Countries with the lowest GDP per capita exhibited the highest birth...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 314, Issue 7082) Peer-ReviewedRoutine amniocentesis for all women over the age of 35 for detecting trisomy 21 has been the world standard for nearly two decades. It is based on a calculated tradeoff: the documented increased risk of trisomy 21 with...
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From:Studies in Family Planning (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article provides a broad overview of China's family planning policy during the last three decades, highlighting key trends and goals of the program at national and provincial levels. It focuses on the...
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From:Journal of Higher Education (Vol. 70, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedResearchers have found that family composition influences the application, enrollment, and attendance rates of high school students pursuing four-year colleges and selective colleges. Complications arise from factors...
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From:International Journal of Population ResearchPeer-ReviewedThis contribution studies the variation in desired family size and excess fertility in four East African countries by analyzing the combined impact of wealth, education, religious affiliation, and place of residence....