Such a low
birth rate makes it hard for the species to recover from sharp population declines.
The perils of ecclesiastical success and the difficulty of predicting
the birth rate make questionable the accuracy of that extrapolation.
Not exact matches
Japan watchers have
made a perennial sport out of opining on the causes of Japan's low marriage and
birth rates, even though they're common to most advanced economies.
What
makes this federal blockage all the more pressing for the Canadian economy is that the demographic crunch of low
birth rates and an aging population is not unique to our country.
«This company is about as direct investment you can
make on the
birth rate increasing,» Dodson said.
Let's face it: We are unlikely to find a single party that truly represents a «culture of life,» and abortion will probably never be
made illegal, so we'll have to go about it the old fashioned way, working through the diverse channels of the Kingdom to adopt and support responsible adoption, welcome single moms into our homes and churches, reach out to the lonely and disenfranchised, address the socioeconomic issues involved, and engage in some difficult conversations about the many factors that contribute to the abortion
rate in this country, (especially
birth control).
However, Walt Heyer, who transitioned from male to female — and then, having become a Christian,
made the transition back to his original
birth gender, says that the suicide
rate among those who have had SRS is not necessarily lower than those who do not
make the physical transition.
With 1,500 of them out there converting two Chin - amen apiece per annum against an uphill
birth rate of 33,000 pagans per day, it will take upward of a million years to
make the conversions balance the output and bring the Christianizing of the country in sight to the naked eye; therefore, if we can offer our missionaries as rich a field at home at lighter expense and quite satisfactory in the matter of danger, why shouldn't they find it fair and right to come back and give us a trial?
The falling
birth rate of the older stock may
make for a decline in the relative importance of those denominations, largely of Anglo - Saxon origin, which heretofore have set the pace.
Even among West Africans, who have some of the highest
birth rates in the world, the RCCG has a reputation for promoting baby -
making among its members.
If a low
birth rate in a particular church
makes it unfeasible to hold such a series periodically, and if no community agency sponsors classes for expectant parents, it is wise for the pastor to meet with the couples separately to help prepare them for their demanding new roles.
But despite that, the
birth rate remains extremely low at 1.4
births per woman and people aged 19 and under
make up less than 1/5 of the population.
As a follow up to that, if McCulloch was suggesting that there were not - bad homebirth outcomes wrongly attributed to hospital, how many of those
births would have to be added to the homebirth group to actually
make a difference in lessening the apparent stillbirth
rate?
Given the cultural hand - wringing over decreasing marital
rates, divorce and stepparenting, and the rise in non-nuclear families and non-marital
births, her proposal to create a legal status seems to
make a lot of sense; family law has not kept up with the vast changes in the marital landscape.
I see it a bit differently — I can't see how a paper that didn't look at causes of death, or comment on the neonatal death
rate in comparison to low - risk hospital
birth,
made it to publication.
It
makes sense that the
birth centre employing this aging lady — and yes, advanced age does matter when combined with inexperience — would be ready to employ someone bragging about a horrifying death
rate and said inexperience.
I think if women were just free to
make the
birth choices that were right for them, we'd see lower mortality
rates.
I was also in a hospital thx to this blog & Dr. Amy, after a very successful out of hospital
birth (not home b / c I couldn't do it being a reader here), it would have
made sense to do a legal Homebirth in Oregon, where it is mainstream, but because of the work exposing OR's
rates here, I could not.
If we could pool all of these statistics and get a break down of precisely how things went wrong, we'd be even better able to
make a case for, «These are the specific things that go wrong in home
birth, their
rates, the chance that immediate medical intervention would have saved the baby» (and so on).
However, since the number of women attempting homebirth is only 1 / 200th of that attempting hospital
birth, and since death is a relatively rare outcome, leaving a few deaths out of the homebirth group would
make a very big difference in the homebirth death
rate.
For example, if you are desiring a natural
birth, choosing a provider with a high induction or cesarean
rate will only
make achieving your
birth goals an uphill battle.
The LiteMax's expanded child weight -
rating make it suitable and nationally - recognized by safety advocates for use with lower
birth - weight babies.
The statement outlines the health care system components that the authors say are critical to reducing perinatal mortality
rates and achieving favorable home
birth outcomes, and
makes a number of recommendations for use when considering planned home
birth.
That attitude probably kept diaper services in business through the lean years of the last two decades, when a falling
birth rate and disposable diapers seemed to be pushing the diaper service industry into the museum along with doctors who
make house calls.
It's well worth investigating C - section
rates, other intervention
rates, and whether the hospital or
birth center is certified Baby - Friendly... All your decisions will
make a difference in how easily breastfeeding happens.
In nulliparous women, a period of 8 hours of augmentation resulted in an 18 % cesarean delivery
rate and no cases of
birth injury or asphyxia, whereas if the period of augmentation had been limited to 4 hours, the cesarean delivery
rate would have been twice as high given the number of women who had not
made significant progress at 4 hours.
One quick google search will show that the neonatal death
rate in the United States is 6.37, NOT 0.38,
making the hospital death
rate 320 % HIGHER than the home
birth rate you cited.
So it
makes no sense whatsoever to try and compare the two groups as you are attempting to, since you have no way of knowing whether the difference in death
rate is due to the place of
birth or due to the underlying conditions which
make the women in question high risk.
What the study does provide is data to help families
make their own decisions, with intrapartum death
rate among low - risk women comparable to that found in several other home
birth studies.
According to the 1998 book Maternity Care in the Netherlands: the changing home
birth rate by T.A. Wiegers, 30 percent of
births in the Netherlands are home
births which likely
makes it the country with the most annual natural
births.
Higher
rates of prelabor cesarean delivery are associated with lower perinatal death
rates and both prelabor cesarean and labor induction are associated with late preterm
birth.2 But it
made me wonder how the overall changes compared to the United States.
Low - income women have lower
rates of breastfeeding because they are more likely to return to work sooner after giving
birth and are employed in positions that
make breastfeeding at work more difficult than women with higher incomes (9).
I haven't researched this at all but it seems plausible that radically increasing skilled immigration could potentially
make up for the low
birth rate and contribute to holding off the stagnation and decline Japan faces if present trends continue unabated.
There are, however, other countries such as Panama, which have the right combination of GDP and
birth rate to
make this new technology a good investment in preventing Zika infections.
But they found that the higher
birth rates of small creatures
made up for their more fragile bodies.
Another report finds
making birth control more accessible to women also reduces abortion
rates.
Take a free online In a country experiencing one of the worst
birth rates in the world, two South Korean universities are now offering courses that
make it mandatory for
B + Orphan
Rated R for disturbing content, some sexuality and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray When a couple loses their third child during
birth, they decide to adopt a young Russian girl to
make up for the loss.
While reasons for the declines are attributed to lower
birth rates, outward migration from the city and the growth of charter schools, the board's Committee of the Whole, chaired by Steve Zimmer, has taken up the issue to
make LA Unified schools more appealing to families.
Of course, some people point out that an aging audience is inevitable because of Japan's declining
birth rate: as the characters in Bakuman say, there simply aren't enough kids in Japan anymore to
make a children's manga as popular as Dragon Ball was 25 years ago.
Many people who encounter feral cats start feeding them, but feeding alone can actually
make the situation worse by increasing the
birth rate of kittens.
so you find the idea of national and international efforts to promote smaller families and to generally lower
birth rates among the world's poorest countries by
making birth control and abortion universally and readily available to be an outrageously barbaric and unfair notion, do you???
i wonder when we'll have a politician with the courage to speak the truth: that decreasing death
rates by improvements and advances in medical care and nutrition and living conditions in the third world — without an even more dramatic reduction in
birth rates — will only
make the planet's environmental problems worse than they already are.
This will
make resources more expensive and the cost to reproduce will rise, slowing the
birth rate and eventually lowering human population and its impacts.
However, results from the model show that an unsustainable scenario can be
made sustainable by reducing per capita depletion
rates, reducing inequality to decrease excessive consumption by the wealthiest, and reducing
birth rates to stabilize the population [134].
A major challenge is that children in the
birth to school - age group grow and develop at different
rates,
making it difficult to recognise when a concern may be present.
The point of comprehensive sexuality education is not to reduce teen
birth rates; rather, she said, «it's so young people can have the resources and education they need to
make healthy choices about their bodies and their lives.»
This is apparent in the
rates of
birth control use (click on figure to
make it larger).
Cutting funding to clinics
makes birth control «inaccessible for many low - income women, inevitably driving up
rates of unintended pregnancies with all their attendant costs and concerns.»
Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low
birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing
rates of school completion and decreasing
rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that
made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.