Changing patterns of child bearing

Question 1

Statistics

Answer 1

• the birth rate is gradually decreasing from 1986 to 2012
• more children still being born within marriages or civil partnerships

Question 2

Further statistics

Answer 2

• women are having less children later in life
• women are having fewer children
• more women are remaining childless

Question 3

Sue sharpe (1967 and 1994)

Answer 3

-studied that girls priorities had changed
1974 - girls had low aspirations and believed educational success was unfeminine and unattractive, prioritised love and marriage
1994 - had a different order of priorities, careers were more important

Question 4

Waugh (2000)
- claims part of the decline if part of the demographic transition and is a result of:

Answer 4

-improved contraception
-emancipation of women
-cost of raising children in a consumer society
-developments in medicine and hygiene
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