Sentences with phrase «to have fewer children»

And then behavior changes in response: More access to resources tends to make people have fewer children, not more.

Evidence suggests that many women in poor, fast - growing countries would have fewer children if they had the resources and freedom to plan the number and timing of their births.

Not only are women having fewer children today, but they are having them under different circumstances than in the past.

I was a grown up before I ever made it to a spa, and in - fact, I already had a few children of my own.

Many women bear no children; those who do bear have fewer children.

For instance, women now have fewer children than in the past.

Still, Rabbi Avi Shafran, director of public affairs for Agudath Israel of America, the largest organization of Haredi Jews in the United States, sees the future differently: «There will be an economic crunch, and there already are many two - income families in the community, but no Haredi Jew is starving, or having fewer children because of economic restraints....

In Philadelphia, what is most vexing are the politicians who have, or whose children have, attended magnet and criteria - based schools — schools that have historically been closed to most black children, have fewer children in poverty than the city's average, fewer students with special needs or ELL support, and who screen entry of its students studiously, and vigilantly.

Union County parents had fewer child care options, with the supply dropping from 675 slots per 1,000 children ages 0 - 4 in 2011 to 665 in 2012.

As more women delay having children and more families have fewer children, the childhood population under the age of 18 has dropped in 95 percent of U.S. counties since 2000, according to an analysis by USA Today of 2010 Census data.

The would - be parents have more opportunities to realize their potential, the state has fewer children who need assistance, and the community gets adults who are ready for all that raising children entails — if they can just delay starting a family.

Family planning experts used to say that women only started having fewer children when they got educated or escaped poverty.

Child Care New Jersey's working parents have fewer child care options.

In fact, those five women with one husband will have FEWER children with one husband than they would with one husband EACH, as they don't sleep with him as often.

Canadians began having fewer children.

While most Jews in America have few children, the Jews of New Square have many: at least six children per woman, and possibly even more, a rate among the highest on earth.

After returning to the States, I went to grad school and then had a few children, which had me state - side for a lifetime record of nearly a decade.

Your look at the paradox of why women in wealthier nations tend to have fewer children included social psychologist Kristina...

Their analysis, published in Nature in 1998, found that women who lived beyond 80 years of age had fewer children than did those who died in middle age.

In addition, many post-menopausal women often have fewer child - rearing responsibilities, allowing them to relax and enjoy intimacy with their partners.

The City of Hartford simply has fewer children than past decades.

«No textbook suggested having fewer children as a way to reduce emissions, and only two out of ten mentioned avoiding air travel.

Excerpt: There should be absolutely no limits on population growth and no attempt whatsoever to cajole, coerce or convince people into having fewer children.

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People in the most developed countries have the fewest children.

Indeed, families acted to maintain their standard of living in the face of stagnant and falling wages, earnings, and incomes during the 1970s and 1980s by having fewer children and sending both parents into the workforce, a strategy that undoubtedly has increased the stress on low - income two - parent families (Levy, 1988), and that contributed to the rise in out - of - wedlock births as a proportion of all births.

Families receiving nurse visitation during pregnancy and infancy had fewer child maltreatment reports involving mother as perpetrator and study child as victim.

Attrition analyses with logistic regressions based on all independent variables in the current study indicated that participants in the sample were somewhat higher educated, and had fewer children at T1, compared to non-respondents at T4 (p <.01).

«Almost universally, women with higher levels of education have fewer children,» wrote demographers in a paper in Science on July 29.

Much of the uncertainty has to do with births and whether citizens of lower - income nations will start to change their ways and have fewer children if and when the standard of living in those countries improves.

This means that whether you are a new parent or one who has already had a few children, you can do it all and the Líllébaby COMPLETE is here to help.

The study revealed that most families had few children's books in the home and that access to children's books was limited, while also demonstrating the appeal of good - quality children's literature in generating numerous re-readings of favourite books.

If people have fewer children and they have them later, the birthrate will go down.

This is one explanation for why developed countries, whose mothers breastfeed for shorter durations (or not at all) and have fewer children in their lifetimes, have higher rates of breast cancer among their populations.

Better - educated women will choose to have fewer children who in turn will get better educations.

«When they're confident their children will make it past their 5th birthday, parents have fewer children.»

Empirical work indicating that providing schooling for women and girls will address these problems includes study after study showing that educated women have fewer children, are wealthier and are less likely to accept fundamentalist extremism.

Previous studies have controlled for the fact that lesbians are better educated, more likely to be white, have fewer children and live in cities, but a 6 % wage premium still exists.

People are getting married less, having fewer children and therefore smaller families.

As people become better off they have fewer children, both because they're too busy to tend to them and because they don't need as many hands to help support the household.

Based on trends in costs, it's evident why many families are choosing to have fewer children — or in some cases, no children at all.

If families that wanted to wait a longer period between births or have fewer children had access to the right tools, two things would happen.

There's another benefit to the pattern Melinda describes — first more children survive, then families decide to have fewer children — which is that it can lead to a burst of economic growth that economists call «the demographic dividend.»

Furthermore, studies show that when women in poor countries are educated, they have fewer children and educate them better (both sons AND daughters), and this eventually allows the family line to break free of the cycle of poverty.