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Turn in “watch your step” if you haven’t and essay

Turn in “watch your step” if you haven’t and essay Objective: Describe how demographic transition can lead to stable population size Catalyst: What would be the impact of birth control methods on population growth? Homework: Practice Quiz questions on page 151 and 152.

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Turn in “watch your step” if you haven’t and essay

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  1. Turn in “watch your step” if you haven’t and essay • Objective: Describe how demographic transition can lead to stable population size • Catalyst: What would be the impact of birth control methods on population growth? • Homework: Practice Quiz questions on page 151 and 152

  2. Factors affecting children • Pronatalist pressures • High infant mortality • Little upward mobility • Male pride • End of war/high optimism • Factors discouraging • Higher education and personal freedom • Cost of raising children (high in US)

  3. Birth Dearths • Problems • Lack of soldiers • Lack of workers • Lack of taxpayers • Solutions? • Incentives for women having children • Financial support for parents • Dating services

  4. Demographic transition • Improved living conditions • Lowers mortality • Lowers birth rates (eventually) • Requires • Improved standard of living • Confidence children will survive • Improved social status of women • Increased availability and use of birth control

  5. As a group…. • Think about a demographic transition • What would be the change in population over time? • Draw 4 population pyramids representing the population 1 before transition, 2 during transition, and 1 after transition • Zombies have invaded and have killed all the weak (children and elders) • Draw 4 population pyramids representing the population before the zombie attack, immediately after the zombie attack, returning to normal, and after the zombie attack has long been forgotten

  6. Stable Population Size Requires Family Planning • Couples must be able to determine the number and spacing of children • Abstinence • Delayed marriage • Contraception • Preventing embryo implantation • Extended breastfeeding

  7. Contraception Use • Increased sharply in recent years • Requirements for success • Improved social, educational, and economic status of women • Improved status for children • Acceptance of choice in fertility • Social and political stability • Knowledge and availability of fertility control

  8. Individually…. • Draw population pyramids for the following • Draw 3 population pyramids representing the time before widespread birth control, following birth control implementation, when birth control is widely used

  9. On the cards List all your team members: If you had a total of 10* the number of team member points, how many would you give each

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