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Discuss the pattern of stratified fertility within industrial/digital economy societies. What are some of the factors that account for the different fertility rates?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Discuss the reasons why agricultural societies are more pronatalist than either foraging or industrial/informatic societies.
 
  What will be an ideal response?


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Reply #1 on: Jul 10, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: The ideal answer will include:
1. Social inequality is reflected in birth patterns.
2. Middle-class and upper-class people have fewer children and higher survival rates.
3. Among the poor, fertility and mortality rates are high.
4. An increasing trend is surrogate motherhood, a practice in which poorer women are paid to birth children.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: The ideal answer will include:
1. It is a rational response to conditions when there is a high need for labor and many tasks.
2. Children are needed to work land, care for animals, etc.
3. In some areas, such as North India, having many children, especially sons, is a sign of status and wealth.


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