Sentences with phrase «with falling birth rates»

Confronted with falling birth rates and demographic shifts, rising tuition, the growth of charter schools, and other challenges, parochial schools are seeing their enrollments plummet.

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So far it «s not working, with only about 20 % of births happening at home, a rate that is falling fast.

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.

Breastfeeding is an unequalled way of providing ideal food for the healthy growth and development of infants1, providing protection from morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases2 and chronic diseases later in life.3 Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended, starting within one hour of birth and for the first 6 months of life, with continued breastfeeding to 2 years of age and beyond.4 However, rates of initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding difficulties.

In other studies of planned home birth or birth in a birthing centre, the rate of perinatal death excluding infants with major congenital anomalies ranged from 1.1 per thousand in a British study1 to 10 per 1000 in the Quebec study, 7 with reported rates in the United States, 2 the Netherlands, 3 Switzerland, 4 New Zealand5 and Australia9, 12 falling in between.

Falls in birth rate may affect Brazil's economy, especially because the country is already experiencing a pension crisis, with the government struggling to accrue enough funds to pay an ageing population.

The First World is already well below replacement, with birth rates still falling.

Adoption rates rose after initiatives by the last government, but fell back after several court judgements said local councils needed to consider all options such as placements with birth relatives, before seeking adoption.