Sentences with phrase «continued high birth rates»

These numbers are projected to grow by an additional four billion by the end of this century, driven by increasing life expectancies, a continuing high birth rate in some countries, as well as «population momentum» — referring to the effect of growing numbers of people themselves having children.

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Until women and their families start expecting respect and look at themselves as the main player in childbirth we will continue to have higher maternal mortality rates than 33 other countries (according to WHO) and higher low birth weight rates than 23 other countries.

What floors me is how people continue to ignore the glaringly obvious fact, that homebirth, even under the best circumstances, continues to kill mothers and babies at a rate that is far higher than births that occur in hospital settings.

it is extremely politically incorrect to note that if the poor, stupid and most fundamentally religious populations have the highest birth rates, then if present trends continue, the world will become a poorer, stupider and more fundamentally religious place.

During the first year of fatherhood, the rates of depressed fathers were quite high: 25 % of American men exhibited signs of postpartum depression during the first three to six months after child birth and 14 % continued exhibiting signs after one year.

The rate of births to adolescent parents has declined steadily since 1991, yet the United States continues to have the highest adolescent birth rate in the industrialized world (Ventura, Matthews, & Curtin, 1999).