what are the main reasons for high birth rates in poor nations and why?
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Look up The US Mexico City Policy, also known as the Global Gag rule.\n\nMuch of the reason why unedcuated people have more children has to do with illiteracy. Women who are educated tend to wait longer before having chilren. Those women also tend to have more money and can afford birth control. Consequently, when they do begin having children they only have 1 or 2. \n\nPoorer families need more hands to help with housework, farming, business matters, etc. Women who are not educated can only do work in the home or in the fields (or sometimes in the market). Uneducated societies also tend to have uneducated men, who, on the average, are more sexist than educated men. Such men also expect their wives to have many children. Poor societies often only value women for their housework and ability to bring babies into the world.
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Actually, you are just about right. I heard it's a natural adaptation from the hunter-gatherer times. Tribes had to move often, in order to follow the animals in their migrations. Pregnancies meant they had to stop for the mother to give birth. So, women's cycles were aligned in order to save time. The process is triggered by hormones. When one woman becomes fertile the others will follow.
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One factor is violence.  More here it seems, than in other\n"1st world" countries.\nI Corinthians 13;8a, Love never fails!!!
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Its based on production. The more babies you produce, the more you make.
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That's true especially in highly developed countries since they are not replacing their population as fast as they are dying out.  Most of them have 2 kids at the most when several decades ago they would have 3-4 kids per family. When you go to these countries, you will hardly see any kids around. Kinda creepy if you ask me.
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Poor countries want what wealthy countries have, even if it means taking it rather than earning it.  Inequality leads to conflict.  The only way many people know to solve conflict is through violence.  Learing to talk, use diplomacy, is the only hope we have.
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hard to tell without further information : are you taking into account the rise in sea level, the rise of the elderly population, people are living longer, many countries are having a fall in birth rate. so taking all these into account, i dont know
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Because mothers do most of the upbringing of children.  The hands of any nation are in it's future generation.  If they are raised the right way, then they will hopefully do the right things.
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i don't think it's currently the number as much as it's the location.. people are multiplying in regions incapable of sustaining them. ironically, birthrates are often decreased in agrarian areas.
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One of several reasons is because the birthrate has dropped considerably in the last 40 to 50 years and another is the fact that a lot of the potential murderers are already in prison.  It's not because we have become a more peaceful society.
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Atleast India educated people abt fAMILY pLANNING WELL..\nNow a days people are not interested in having more than one child..
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I think you are confusing poverty with race. Poor people have more children. You probably have met people of Mexican heritage you did not even know were Hispanic. You also likely cannot tell the difference between a Puerto Rican and a Hondurian, so they all seem Mexican to you. \n\nThe poor in this country have always had the highest birth rates. This is a vicious cycle as having children is expensive and keeps them locked in poverty. The old welfarce system added incentive as it payed more and more with each child. The new system caps this and thus discourages larger families but it will be some time before we see the net effects of this. \n\nHispanic culture does however measure a man's Machismo with his ability to sire children. Birth control is a touchy subject with many imigrants of Hispanic origion. Some get the shot instead of the pill so that they can use birth control without knowledge/interfence from the boyfriend/husband. Many accept their role as mother of many children. Hispanic culture is not the only culture that has this value. Just one of the more blatent about it. Typically in the past once they are a generation in they tend to adopt a more Western attitude and raise smaller families as they climb the ladder in education and affluence. \n\nAs for teenage pregnacy no race has a monopoly on that. You see it with all races, religions, incomes. More often than not you see the children of the strictest households or loosest households providing the bulk of teen pregnancies. The strictest the teen girl gets in trouble out of fear. The looser ones out of ignorance. The result is the same. A child when a girl is far too young to raise one. both are preventable but the parents are either too strict or care too little about their children or both to prevent it.
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No, it doesn't change it.  The crude birth rate is the number of births per 1000 people, it doesn't include infant mortality.
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Have you tried the American Heart Association website with its discussion of diseases and conditions?  I suspect lower socioeconomic status is associated with lack of health care, high rates of rheumatic heart disease, lack of dental care, higher rates of IVDA, and thus higher rates of endocarditis.
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Consumers in developed countries have more disposable income and so the demand for services is higher, developing countries have low capitol and labour costs and so are attractive for manufacturing companies. I believe these are the main reasons, but there is a lot more to your question than meets the eye.
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rich countries get richer and poor nations get abused and used
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There are many issues causing poverty - there is inequality, human rights issues, lack of education, lack of access to information, unfair trade practices ... so reducing poverty in this millenium is a difficult although attainable goal.  There's also talk of the Milllenium Development Goals which multialteral development insitutions are inviting all governments and NGOs to help in achieving. I hope this will help you attend that lecture better.