ASSIGNMENT 1
SECTION A
THE COST OF CHILDREN BY RUTH MACE
QUESTION 1
The cost of children article uses the word apace to clearly clarify the speed of
low birth rate of children and family size that it continues to decrease quickly.
In the first paragraph the word apace is used to emphasize the issue of cost of
children. In the word and to show everyone that this low birth rate is still
happening and will continue to happen until something is done about it. The
word apace is also used in the first paragraph to emphasize to a reader on how
serious and important this issue of low birth rate is because it is mentioned in
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the first paragraph of the article that the issue of low birth rate does not only
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effect woman but also the families and the furfure of the country as well.
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QUESTION 2
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The researchers in these articles mention four courses of decline in the number
of children being born. Namely the mortality or reduction in mortality; cultural
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influence; the effects of changing costs and benefits of children in the modern
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world and fertility. The researchers explained reduction in mortality as a driver
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of transaction to low birth rate; due high motional and perinatal mortality; there
is a reduction in birth rate but as the researcher’s kept on researching they later
suggested that it is interesting that particular population is often held up as an
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example of economic development. And the changing of cost and benefit of
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children in the Morden world is a big impact on decline of birth of children
since people are trying to maintain the standards of living.
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QUESTION 3
The demographers stopped to place great emphasize on the reduction in
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mortality because it failed to predict all aspects of phenomenon. The other
alternative model the researchers suggested was the proposal of the cultural
influence of new idea as a major determinant.
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