World Population Control

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Many people have expressed great concerns about the rate of growth as well as the size of the world’s population. During the last 50 years, the world population has doubled rapidly more than ever before giving a global population of 12 billion. At the beginning of the population increase, there were many factors that caused it to grow. With the industrial revolution came advances in agriculture and industry that gave way to individual families being able to afford more children. In addition, increases in our knowledge about nutrition and medicine helped us to have more healthy babies. When women take care of their bodies better, they are more fertile and therefore can have more children. With cures for fatal diseases including antibiotics and vaccines, these children are also able to live longer. Finally, there has been an increase in fertility due to a number of factors including a reduction in the average age at which menarche occurs and an increase in the number of menstrual cycles a woman has in her lifetime. In all likelihood, the human populations in different regions grew or declined in response to birth, death, migration, and with the impact of government control. Birth control or family planning is the most timely and controversial topic in the field of demography today. Deliberate manipulation of fertility has raised vociferous and sometimes violent opposition, although there seem to be no objections to exercising like control over the other demographic variable affecting man's total numbers. When families have the ability to see how large families can have a strenuous affect on resources within the environment, we can then begin to increase the availability of birth control. Both education about the population problem and an increase in women in the work force will cause women to wait longer to have children. No one argues that death control or mortality
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