Social and Cultural Contributors
Social and Cultural Contributors
Religious Beliefs, Traditions, and Cultural Norms
In some cultures, these factors favor large families and strongly oppose abortion, birth control, and family planning. Most of these cultures are very male dominated, and thus the women do not have control over their own bodies. This sort of cultural norm is what leads to high fertility rates, and a change in cultural attitude is necessary in order to bring these rates down.
Urbanization
People who live in urban areas usually have better access to family planning services and tend to have fewer children than those living in rural areas, where children are needed to perform essential tasks. This is all die to the availability of widespread education of contraceptives and family planning, both key concepts in the fight to bring down the global population.
Importance of Children as a part of the labor force
In much third world culture, children are used as a cheap labor force. It is much more cost effective for producers to use children than to hire an adult with a family to provide for. This contributes to the need for children in the population, the more children a parent can have; the more income can come into the family. Thus it is crucial that child labor laws be implemented world wide not simply for the ethical reasons that most people already know, but also for the reason of making the world more sustainable.
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