In order to attain the goal of group solidarity and to relieve tension, the high fertility rate provides more group members for mate selection, and the clustering of members in groups fosters acceptance of group controls.

The national fertility rate fell and immigration was reduced to a trickle.

In Japan, a strong belief in astrology has led to dramatic changes in the fertility rate and the number of abortions in the years of " Fire Horse ".

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The Faroe Islands have the highest rate of adoption in the world, despite a relatively high fertility rate of 2. 6 children.

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The total fertility rate has been rated around 1. 4 in 2010 ( the highest value since 1990 ) and has recently even been estimated at 1. 6 after accounting for the fact that older women contribute more to the number of births than in previous statistic models, and total fertility rates increased in younger generations.

With the fertility rate averaging about seven children per adult female and expected to fall only to five children per adult female by the year 2000, the population projection of 35 million in 2025 becomes more credible.

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Total fertility rate: 3. 07 children born / woman ( 2011 est.

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The population is aging with the birth rate at 10. 42 births / 1, 000 population or fertility rate at 1. 8.

Despite this the total fertility rate is still below replacement.

The total fertility rate has also climbed from an all-time low of 1. 18 children per woman in 1995 to 1. 41 in 2008.

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The birth rate in 2007 was 49. 6 births per 1, 000, and the total fertility rate was 7. 4 children per woman.

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By means of geographical isolation and high fertility rates, inbreeding can be fostered and the pattern of isolation from the greater society maintained.

Thailand has observed global pattern of an enlarging elderly class: as fertility control is encouraged and medical advances are made, births shrink and lives age.

* The historical pattern of fertility.

During this period, the rate of fertility decreases dramatically from a high rate at 6. 7 % to 2. 14 % in 2000-2008, the same pattern is found with the rate of mortality.

The Western European pattern of late and non-universal marriage restricted fertility massively, especially when it was coupled with very low levels of childbirth out of wedlock.

She would return this symbol to the mountain, as one pours seed back into the soil every Spring or as ancient fertility cults demand annual human sacrifice.

The study argues that " at present rates of fertility and mortality and in the absence of changes within countries, the average IQ of the young world population would decline by 1. 34 points per decade and the average per capita income would decline by 0. 79 % per year.

Assuming the data is reliable, reasons for falling growth rates and fertility rates probably include late marriage, urbanization, limited housing space, and the expectation that women would participate equally in terms of work hours in the labor force.

She would embody the fertility of the earth and its capacity to bear grain and fruits for the benefit of humankind.

As tribal populations grew, fertility was no longer a valid justification of polygamy: it was lawful among the ancient fathers: whether it be lawful now also, I would not hastily pronounce ( utrum et nunc fas sit, non temere dixerim ).

In chapter 7, Augustine pointed out that the Roman Empire forbad polygamy, even if the reason of fertility would support it: For it is in a man ’ s power to put away a wife that is barren, and marry one of whom to have children.

* The gross reproduction rate, the number of daughters who would be born to a woman completing her reproductive life at current age-specific fertility rates.

For example, if a population has a total fertility rate of 4. 0 but the sex ratio is 66 / 34 ( twice as many men as women ), this population is actually growing at a slower natural increase rate than would a population having a fertility rate of 3. 0 and a sex ratio of 50 / 50.

A Tennessee farmer would not take advice from an official in a suit and tie, so TVA officials had to find leaders in the communities and convince them that crop rotation and the judicious application of fertilizers could restore soil fertility.

As the god of fertility all the produce of the soil would be his, and his adherents would bring to him their tribute of first-fruits.

He would be the patron of all growth and fertility, and, by the use of analogy characteristic of early thought, this Baʿal would be the god of the productive element in its widest sense.

There is evidence that men who have had a vasectomy may produce more abnormal sperm, which would explain why even a mechanically successful reversal does not always restore fertility.

In Australian Aboriginal mythology ( specifically: Kamilaroi ), Birrahgnooloo is a goddess of fertility who would send floods if properly asked.

In The Waste Land, ' Eliot waxes nostalgically for a classical society founded upon ritual praxis ... fertility rites in which the participants mime the fall and return of natural cycles ' - ' Keeping time, Keeping their rhythm in their dancing As in their living in the living seasons ', as he would subsequently put it.

This character of the festival as well as the fact that Neptune was offered the sacrifice of a bull would point to an agricultural fertility context.

He commented that he would only consider couples with at least 20 years ' life expectancy left for fertility treatment.

The fertility of the soil and the relief which rises above the wetter plains of present-day Flanders would also suggest that his would have been an early area of settlement.

Janus is often associated with fecundity in myths, representing the masculine principle of motion, while Juno represents the complementary feminine principle of fertility: the action of the first would allow the manifestation of the other.

According to one myth, when her fertility had been restored and she had given birth to Isaac, the people would not believe in the miracle, saying that the patriarch and his wife had adopted a foundling and pretended that it was their own son.