Practice AP Environmental Science questions on social, economic, and cultural factors that change fertility rates and population stability.
Haiti shares a border with the Dominican Republic on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.
Identify and discuss one economic or cultural factor in a less developed country that could contribute significantly to a change in the fertility rate, similar to what occurred in Haiti from 1995 to 2015.
Identify and discuss one economic or cultural factor in a less developed country that could contribute significantly to a change in the fertility rate, similar to what occurred in Haiti from 1995 to 2015.
(2 points: 1 point for correctly identifying one economic or cultural factor that decreases fertility rate and 1 point for discussing how that factor contributes significantly to this decrease. The contribution point may not be earned without earning the factor point.)
Factor
Contribution to significantly decreasing fertility rate
Increased education of women
- Fewer children
- Later age at first reproduction
- Aware of choices for family planning
More economic opportunities for women
- Fewer children
- Later age at first reproduction
- Less dependence on males
Later marriage age for women
- Fewer children
- Later age at first reproduction
Cultural acceptance of family planning strategies/increased access to family planning
- Fewer children
- Confidence that children will survive to adulthood
Increased women's rights/gender
equality/empowerment of women
- Access to family planning
- Choices in reproduction
- Financially less dependent on males
Increased
industrialization/economic
development
- Children no longer an asset, but a financial liability
More social programs to support elderly citizens
- Children no longer needed to support aging parents