Overcoming the obstacles to fertility decline in today's lesser industrialized countries
1996
Daoutopoulos, G. (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)) | Theophilou, M.D.
The present paper examines the obstacles to fertility decline in today's lesser industrialized countries (LICs). It also addresses the question of how those obstacles can be overcome for a significant decline in fertility rates over the next decade. The literature reviewed provided evidence that a significant decline in fertility rates in the LICs would probably come not through family planning programs that concentrate on providing new and efficient contraceptives on a national basis but through changes in the structure and function of the family. Such changes are more likely to be brought about through mass education. Furthermore, it is unlikely that mass education can have substantial impacts on fertility over the next ten years. Instead, the impacts of mass education are most likely to be seen not on the parental generation but on their children who received better education.
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