Sentences with phrase «women having fewer children»

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

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This statistic, which has been going around for a few years now, in fact refers to single, child - free women under age 30 and living in metropolitan areas.

Common sense would dictate that if the people of a large society wanted to pay less to house criminals, wanted fewer abortions, and more people working — they would put their resources towards educating their youth on how to not get pregnant, providing contraception to those women who do not want children until they are equipped to raise them, and towards making sure all children obtain the highest possible education they can achieve.

For example, a few years ago, an Australian couple paid a Thai woman to gestate two children but refused to take one home because he had Down syndrome.

A few days earlier, I had the chance to talk with Norma — a woman who had once been a sponsored child and who is now responsible for leading all the programs related to women's empowerment in Colomi, where World Vision has just started making an impact.

Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower, Mary Ann Mason reports that while women in so - called «fast - track professions» have fewer children than does the average American woman, female faculty are almost half as likely as female physicians and slightly less likely than female lawyers to have a child at all, even though academia offers far more flexible hours than the average law firm or hospital.

Along with raising children and keeping house, spirituality has often been one of the few serious pursuits which women have been allowed and affirmed for.

When I hear the expression, «God is in control,» I tend to think about the Asian tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands in 2004, the countless women who have been raped in the Congo over the last few days, and the many children who will die of hunger and preventable disease this year.

More than a few questions linger in the wake of these six attempts to reimage redemption: How, one may ask, can we experience the process of letting - go without falling victim to the surrender imagery that has done such harm to women and children, particularly in abusive situations?

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.

Strategically placed near the checkout line at the grocery store, where, after a frustrating hour of decision - making, calorie counting, list checking, and child - bribing, women would otherwise be forced to stop, wait, and ask themselves a few questions about the meaning of their existence, the magazine aisle dazzles us with photoshopped images of super-skinny models, next to impeccably arranged place settings, next to actresses praised for losing their baby weight in five minutes, next to Martha Stewart holding a perfectly frosted chocolate cake.

If only half of reimbursements for debt servicing went towards health and education, it would save the lives of 300 children per day and 16 fewer women per day would die following childbirth.»

She says that women who are poor are having children at a higher rate (and unplanned pregnancies at an even higher rate than that) while women with higher economic status are having fewer and fewer children.

If a woman had a deliciously exciting sexual time in her 20s, or a few long - term committed relationships or perhaps a combo, and then had a dearth of partners in her mid - to late - 30s, when she may be thinking about having a child, the definition of the «right man to marry» may change, clarity be damned.

It reminds me of when I graduated in 1980 with an MBA and the few women in the program were cautioned not to have pictures of their children on their desk at the risk of people assuming we didn't take our careers seriously.

It seems to come down to a few desirable traits — warmth, affection, thoughtfulness, being nurturing — and, as the Pew notes, similar child - rearing views versus being a woman who has a steady job.

From my own experience, with Child 1 I couldn't pump nearly enough milk so we ended up buying lots of formula anyway (between that, the cost of the pump and the hands - free bras, the cost of the journey to get his tongue tie snipped, and the extra maternity leave I took, I may well be one of the few women to have made an overall loss from breastfeeding).

I have a few qualms about his hunch that «The key difference is likely to come down to the demands of breastfeeding following the birth of a child — an activity that's energy - intensive, time - consuming, and quite difficult to integrate with paid work, at least as work is currently structured» — because that assumes that all women who want a high status - high income partner plan to have children.

In urban SEA, women are getting married at later ages and are having fewer children.

Although many have quit breastfeeding before their children reach the one or two year recommended milestones, for the few women who do continue to breastfeed their babies into toddlerhood it can be very difficult to make the decision about when to wean.

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of being in on an amazing call with finance expert Suze Orman, who provided sage advice on everything from women in business, to student loans, to saving for your child's education, to home and personal finances.

• Strong enforcement is not only correlated with lower rates of separation and divorce, but also appears to lead to men having fewer out of wedlock births; and to partnering with better - educated women who have a higher underlying propensity to invest in their children.

I had two children from a previous marriage that I had sole co of, I had a good job, remarried to a poor woman raised her child as my own, as well, I got hurt at work had a few surgeries, my injuries became a disability so something's had to go, house paid for, new cars traded for older ones that were paid for as well, and she's gone!!

After supporting my sister through the birth of her first two children and attending the births of a few of my friends, I realized that I want women to feel empowered and knowledgeable to have the birth experience they desire.

Conceiving triplets also reduces the amount of time spent in the hospital and doctor visits and even helps in recovery process as the woman will just have to go through the procedure once instead of a few times child.

Open adoption can be great, I'm sure, but it seems to have become just a carrot to persuade women to place their children in adoption with very few states legally guaranteeing open adoption agreements.

but the birth i want isn't just some selfish fantasy — i'm making these choices based on what science and millenia of birthing women have proven are the safest, healthiest, and most positive ways to bring a child into the world / interact with them in their first few hours of life.

Yes, the very few times when I have noticed someone looking disgusted / upset with me nursing my child in public, it was an older woman.

C - sections have become very safe, and most women desire 3 or fewer children, so an un-scarred uterus is not a priority.

Since most women in the developed world choose to have fewer than four children, CS or not, I'm not sure that is an argument that is applicable to the vast majority.

While very few would argue that a man should be able to force a woman to have a baby she does not want, at the same time most people would also expect a man to provide for a biological child even if he did not want it.

I know very few women who would leave their marriage, however horrible it was, if it meant leaving the children behind.

The AAP recommends nursing until your baby is 1 year old, and thankfully, there are very few people who would bat an eye at a woman breastfeeding her 12 - month - old child.

«An absolute risk of 0.15 % for an event that happens only a few times in one's lifetime is very low (in other words a woman would only expect to have 1 child die if she had over 650 children).»

When contractions first started and my waters broke we went into hospital, but as I wasn't very dilated and they had too many women in for too few staff we were told to go home until morning (we had torrential rain that night for Goth Child's birth).

«Ten women gave birth to dead babies as they had no access to health facilities in past few weeks, adding that two other children were killed by an avalanche while traveling from one village to another,» said Hashir.

There are a few students, some young women who say they have never voted before but will for Corbyn, a disabled woman in a wheelchair, some local party activists, and a number of parents with children.

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

In countries like Nigeria, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Afghanistan, women are still averaging more than 5 children per family, while many high - income nations in Western Europe and elsewhere are having fewer than 2 children per woman.

Their study, which focused on the relationship between mid-life women and young children, found that women who underwent rapid menopause, caused by the surgical removal of ovaries, had fewer hot flashes and night sweats when young children lived in their homes.

Amazonian women have three fewer children if they are infected with hookworms, but those afflicted by roundworms have two more

«You start educating women, and they delay marriage and have fewer children,» he says.

Global fertility has halved in a generation to fewer than 2.5 children per woman, thanks to social trends such as education and urbanisation.

In studies of haemophiliacs, the very few partners who have become infected tend to be women who have not had children.

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

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

Girls in school marry later, and empowered young women enter the labor force and choose to have fewer children.

Worldwide, according to a calculation provided for this article by demographers at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, women with no schooling have an average of 4.5 children, whereas those with a few years of primary school have just three.

In every nation, rich and poor, in which a choice of contraceptives is available and is backed up by reasonably accessible safe abortion for when contraception fails, women have two or fewer children.

Working in Spain, in affiliation with the Autonomous University of Barcelona, they used MRI scanning to examine the brains of 25 women who had never had children, both before they became pregnant and again from 3 weeks to a few months after they gave birth.