Saturday, December 17, 2011

Socio-economic choices for women. - From the New Zealand Herald.


...Meanwhile, (click title to entry - thank you) one in 10 45-year-old women in 2010, when the information was collated, had four or more children, compared with one in five women born in 1938.
According to the figures, women born in the 1960s and 1970s had fewer children by age 30 than previous generations as more and more opted into higher eduction, delayed marriage and established careers.
Those born in 1965 had 1.18 children on average by their 30th birthday, compared with 1.86 for women born in 1938.
And those women born in 1980 had 1.03 children on average by their 30th.
Future projections suggest that the percentage of women having just one child will rise from 13 per cent among women born in 1965 to 18 per cent for these born in 1970 and 1975....
While in the USA the political right wing wants to define an embryo as a citizen and prohibit birth control to insure they have enough people for their military aspirations.