全球人口增长问题 Global Problems of.Population Growth 24-18.pdfVIP

MCDB 150 Global Problems of Population Growth Lecture 18 Notes In a previous lecture, I described the traditional (pre-revolution) Chinese system of population control. One of the main factors in the control was post-natal: i.e. female infanticide. We also saw that the birth rate in marriage was much less than Europe’s. We asked whether this was evidence of pre-natal control of conception? Some Chinese demographers suggest that the low birth rate was due to a low frequency of intercourse. This, in turn, was due to cultural constraints affecting all indivi