Pop Change - Cultural Controls Flashcards
Name 3 factors affecting fertility?
Social - healthcare/ education/ status of women
Economic - affluence
Political - political stability
Why are parents having fewer children ?
Affluence More leisure time Focus on careers Children expensive Materialism
Better family planning / contraception
Example of cultural control ?
China’s one child policy
Culture accepts one child as being social norm.
Relaxed policy meaning wealthy Chinese people have more children.
What happened when China’s one child policy was abandoned?
40% of Chinese said they will still only have 1 child
Roman Catholicism and Islam
Proscribe the use of artificial contraception and abortion as method of pop control
What is pop structure like in Islam countries ?
Low fertility
Slow pop growth
Maybe decline
Muslim countries
High fertility rates
Fast growth
Only certain types of contraception used.
Gender preference
Male preference.
Rural areas as they’re expected to work and look after farm and family.
India / niger
Higher fertility rates until they get a boy and larger families.
Status of women
Unequal rights in many countries still - not getting education and forced into marriage.
Meaning more children/ unintended pregnancies l.
Child marriage
More than 60% of women in 5 counties of African and Bangladesh were married before 18
Legal marriage ages between 16-18 but in niger its 15
Local scale 12
Meaning higher fertility rates
Polygamy
Man takes more than 1 wife.
Africa
Linked with culture/ tradition not religion
Seen as having power
Population policies
Government led campaigns
India’s ‘one family, two children ‘
Successful as reducing fertility rates
In the UK
It was once norm to have babies.
affluence means less babies
expensive children
