Whether women's mate preferences shift
at high fertility has been a source of debate since the late 1990s, when the first scholarly studies to hint at such a change appeared.
Not exact matches
The U.S.
fertility rate in 2006 and 2007 was 2.10, which is precisely
at replacement level and the
highest since 1971.
Women in their thirties and forties have diminished
fertility, are
at higher risk of miscarriage and are more likely to experience birth complications requiring a caesarean section.
Our Virginia
fertility center only performs embryo transfers five days after egg retrieval
at the blastocyst stage, which results in a significantly
higher rate than a Day 3 embryo transfer.
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high rate of multiple gestation with a significant increase in the risk of preterm delivery.
A. Prolactin levels are notably
higher at night than during the day, which means breastfeeds
at night have more of an impact than day time feeds on suppressing
fertility even though women nurse a greater number of times during the day.
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He mentioned the Free Seedlings Distribution programme which provides early bearing and
high yielding planting materials to farmers
at no cost, the Free Fertilizer Distribution Programme which is helping to improve upon soil
fertility and increase yield, the National Cocoa Rehabilitation Programme which has facilitated the replanting of large hectares of over-aged, moribund and diseased farms as well as the Youth in Cocoa Initiative which is curbing the ageing - cocoa - farmers situation in Ghana.
In Africa alone, the continent with the
highest fertility rate and lowest use of modern contraceptives, 26 countries will double their population by 2050, according to the U.N. «Fundamentally if you're looking
at World Population Day, it is
at heart a women's rights issue,» said Roger - Mark DeSouza director of population, environmental security and resilience
at the non-partisan policy Wilson Center, based in Washington, D.C. World Population Day is meant to draw attention to the challenges we face with a human population that is constantly growing.
The population was expected to peak
at 9 billion by 2050, but
high fertility rates in Africa may mean it surges as
high as 12.3 billion by 2100
Dr. Eli Y. Adashi, professor of obstetrics and gynecology
at Brown University, and his colleagues calculated that more than a third of twin births and more than three - quarters of triplets or
higher - order births in the United States in 2011 were the result of
fertility treatments.
«I think Mormons are an interesting case because it's one example of a faith community that has really
high fertility patterns, in fact the
highest fertility patterns in the U.S., who don't seem to suffer as much by having these large families when we look
at educational attainment,» Gibbs said.
«Women could have had the best of both worlds — securing paternal investment from a long - term mate and
high - genetic quality from affair partners — but only if those affairs were timed
at a point of
high fertility within the cycle, and probably only if their affairs remained undiscovered.»
A rapid voluntary reduction in
fertility rates in the poor countries, brought about by more access to family planning,
higher child survival and education for girls, could stabilize the population
at around eight billion by 2050.
For long - lived species such as humans, chimpanzees, whales and some birds, longer survival is associated with
higher reproductive rates and a loss in
fertility only
at an extremely old age.
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Women who have any preexisting eye conditions, like glaucoma,
high blood pressure, or diabetes, and women who have taken
fertility treatments should also be extra vigilant with their eyesight, because these conditions may put you
at greater risk for vision changes.
Sodium borate and boric acid interfere with sperm production, damage the testes and interfere with male
fertility when given to animals by mouth
at high doses.
One of the things that was most difficult for me to have this diagnosis as a young woman was that I would be
at higher risk for
fertility problems...
Evolutionarily speaking that is a good thing, since that is also when
fertility is
at its
highest.
This is good news because herpes has no effect on you
fertility and it has a
higher transmission rate only if you are having a break out
at the time of the birth.
Although a complete
fertility evaluation of characteristics such as sperm morphology was not performed, the complete absence of sperm seen
at higher doses indicates likely contraceptive effect.
I was making a statement about the reality that 1) much of the world is today is already
at or below replacement
fertility levels, and that 2) the main
high -
fertility areas remaining in the world today are in fact sub-Saharan African nations.
«Over,» formally titled «Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot,» explores themes
at the heart of this blog — the harms from persistent
high fertility rates, consumption for consumption's sake, disregard for the environmental and social impacts of resource extraction.
Using the UN's «medium
fertility» population growth rate projection and the assumed
higher per capita carbon footprint plus the assumption that 50 % of the emitted CO2 will «remain» in the atmosphere, we arrive
at an estimated atmospheric CO2 concentration of 640 ppmv by 2100.
Whether one assumes a «low
fertility» case with global population leveling off by 2100
at around 9 billion (CAGR of 0.3 % / year) or a «
high fertility» case with population growing to 12 billion (CAGR of 0.6 % / year) does not really matter that much.
If those projected decreases in
fertility rates are off by only 0.5 births per woman (an error of less than 10 % in many
high -
fertility countries), the date
at which the world reaches 11 billion will occur five decades earlier and will raise the global total population by 2100 to nearly 17 billion and still rapidly growing [3].
The UN now says, «
At the country level, much of the overall increase between 2013 and 2050 is projected to take place in
high -
fertility countries, mainly in Africa, as well as countries with large populations such as India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines and the United States of America.»
Family instability and multipartner
fertility are associated with
higher levels of behavioral problems in 9 - year - old children, but the relationships vary across parents» union status
at birth.
Another recent study replicated these findings and also showed that men can tell the difference between the scents of the same woman
at high - and low -
fertility.
Then
at a
high -
fertility point (just before ovulation) and low -
fertility point, the women were then asked about the quality of their relationship.
«Women with the really good, stable guy felt more distant
at high -
fertility periods than low -
fertility periods,» Haselton explained in a statement.
It is possible that the factors influencing
fertility of these subpopulations are particularly important for future
fertility prospects because
fertility is being postponed to increasingly
higher ages — for example, mean age
at first birth is already above 30 in Germany (OECD 2012)-- and overall educational attainment is increasing.
High - SES women may also be more effective
at implementing lower
fertility preferences through contraception after learning from negative parenting experiences (Ranjit et al. 2001).
Alternatively, even if there were no differences in how
fertility intentions are revised,
high - SES parents may be better
at meeting their lower
fertility preferences with contraceptives than their low - SES counterparts (Ranjit et al. 2001).
The growing trend in multipartnered
fertility, along with
high rates of nonmarital births, means that many men are fathering children from multiple women
at a distance, 45,46 a trait that is associated with greater externalizing behaviours and poorer health among children.47
Using experimental methods researchers have found support for: childhood stress (§ 6b) and father absence (§ 6c) lowering preferred age
at first birth and increasing sexual risk taking [45,53]; attachment style (§ 6e) influencing parenthood - related thoughts [60]; cultural norms (§ 6m) discouraging reproduction outside stable unions [12]; women's reproductive autonomy (§ 6i) influencing their
fertility preferences [47]; paternity uncertainty (§ 6j) discouraging parental investment by men [55];
high cost of children (§ 6l) encouraging delayed reproduction and lower
fertility [36,47]; resource stress and limitation (§ 6o) affecting mating preferences [12,36,40,51]; and mortality risk and salience (§ 6p) encouraging a greater interest in children, earlier reproduction and
higher fertility [6,41,42,45,57 — 59].
Agreeableness (cooperativeness; empathy) predicts
higher fertility at least in females [95], also including reproductive acceleration [94].