Using Your Sociological Knowledge of How People Adapt to a Changing

question 19

Multiple Choice

Using your sociological knowledge of how people adapt to a changing environment and your knowledge of demographics, why would fertility rates eventually decline in response to lower mortality rates?

• A) Developed countries are the first to experience lower mortality rates, and these are the countries most concerned about population growth.
• B) An explosion in population growth scares the average person and so they have fewer children.
• C) As fewer people die young, couples have smaller families because more of their children will live to be adults.
• D) Population growth leads many governments to enact extreme measures to limit fertility rates.

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