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bcretired · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

Berelson asserts that social traditions and social pressures

a. greatly influence the number of children couples have
b. allow couples to have all the children they can physically have
c. are significant to persons of childbearing age for the first time in history
d. are greater on the rural poor than people in the cities
e. are less than the desire for power over a child

Question 2

The purpose of Berelson's essay is to explain

a. why people should or should not have children considering the tremendous
expense involved
b. why people in these latter decades of the twentieth century want children
c. the psychological reasons why people want children
d. the pressures society puts upon people to have children
e. why all people in all societies have wanted children