The complex factors involved in family fertility decisions
May 6, 2016 • Daily Email Recap
The complex factors involved in family fertility decisions
See original/source content: https://blogs.worldbank.org/health/complex-factors-involved-family-fertility-decisions
Culture, religious beliefs, gender relations and low child survival rates – all play a critical role in very personal decisions about reproduction and hence overall fertility levels and trends. It is not always about ‘supply side’ factors or economic barriers- that is availability of family planning services – the number of children women have is a very personal decision.
Various factors determine the number of children families have including: i) Desire for large families – own desires, family desires, social norms (including old age security); ii) Prevalent child mortality – replacement and hoarding/insurance; iii) Knowledge – knowledge on the reasons to use family planning, available options, side effects and mitigation measures, available services and locations, and costs; and (iv) Access to quality family planning services.
See original/source content: https://blogs.worldbank.org/health/complex-factors-involved-family-fertility-decisions
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