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In a low fertility society, such as Italy, women typically:
 
  a. do not need to have children to have a purpose in life or to assure their social standing.
  b. have little involvement outside the home.
  c. view fertility as a duty and a means of old-age insurance.
  d. gain higher status from having children.

Question 2

The fertility rate to replace a woman and her partner and to cover childhood mortality is called:
 
  a. reverse mortality rate.
  b. crude birth rate.
  c. raw birth rate.
  d. zero population growth



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Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

d



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