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- Decline in birth rate.
- changes in women position
- women right to vote
- Easier access to divorce
- increased educational oppurtunites
- Increased educational opportunities.
- Sarah harper 2012 believes the education of women is the most important reason in the long term fall in birth and fertility rate.
- Many are choosing to have children later or not at all in order to pursue a career
- women right to vote
- Decline in infant mortality rate
- Improved sanitation, housing, medicine, nutrition and knowledge mean less infants are dying
- In 1900, the infant mortality rate for the UK was 154.15% of babies died within their first year.
- Harper argued that a fall in infant mortality rate leads to a fall in birth rates.
- If infants die parents would have more children to replace them so if an infant survives they will have fewer children
- Children have become an economic liability.
- Laws not allowing child labour, instead they must be in school.
- This means children are economically dependant on children
- until the 19th century children where economic assets to their parents
- Changing norms children cost more to raise
- Child Centredness.
- Childhood is now socially constructed
- Parents now have fewer children and lavish more attention and resources on these few
- Parents now have fewer children and lavish more attention and resources on these few
- Childhood is now socially constructed
- Laws not allowing child labour, instead they must be in school.
- changes in women position
- Girls now do better at school than boys.
- Increased educational opportunities.
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