This time will be reduced by half if the couple have children (natural or adopted).

Rehema was divorced by her husband and disowned by her family after she failed to produce children.

But households in the least developed countries have many children an average of five per woman partly because fear of high childhood death rates leads them to overcompensate with large families.

First, rural households would be encouraged to have fewer children, and to invest more in each child s health and education. Child survival rates would rise, reinforcing lower fertility rates.

Policymakers could also find creative ways to increase the odds that women will return to the labor market after having children.

These women are often unable to have children of their own, or have miscarried, and seek to satisfy their unmet psychological need by abducting a child rather than by adopting.

Sami and Layla wanted a child of their own.

Measures aimed at enabling mothers to work, such as state funded childcare and more flexible working hours, create incentives for childrearing while expanding the labor force.

When child mortality is reduced, poor families choose to have fewer children, because they are more confident that their children will survive to adulthood.

The same rights to decide freely and responsibility on the number and spacing of their children and to have access to the information, education and means to enable them to exercise these rights

The choice of whether or not to have children and information on the means of avoiding transmitting the disease to an unborn child or a newborn infant make women the focus of intense scrutiny pregnancy and childcare are areas around which multiple stigmas of family, community and health care converge.

The only hope was to stop economic growth itself, cut consumption, recycle, and force people to have fewer children, stabilizing society at a significantly poorer level.

Still, many people profess to believe that poverty is the result of not working hard enough, or of having too many children.

At the same time, increased educational opportunities for girls and women, and low cost contraceptives provided by family planning services, would empower them to marry later and have fewer children.

Child born after the succession of States

Sami wanted a son to inherit his name and fortune.

These images do appeal to overworked, exasperated, baby hungry women who may have spent years waiting for the offer, telling them that, in fact, you don t need a man.

To defend him her and to represent him her, including the unborn

Alleged victim Canadian unborn children

Marten was an attractive woman and relationships with men from the neighbourhood had already resulted in two children.

So part of my thinking, and part of my wishes, is sitting with these thoughts in mind, and thinking about, How is their life going to be when they want to have children, or when they're ready to get married 20 years from now or whatever, 15 years from now?

Now it appears probable that they are thank offerings after the birth of children.

Including children who are already 7 years old but do not yet go to school

Almost half of those who wished to get children at the end of the 1990s decided to postpone it due to financial reasons.

Henry VIII was willing to execute two wives and overturn Christendom in pursuit of a son.

Not a few enriched their adopted homelands by achieving great things, or producing children who did.

Three children and one adult drowned after one of the children fell in the pool.

In most communities women living with HIV who decide to have children are criticized and blamed for infecting their children.

13. Notes with concern the tragic plight of children in conflict situations in Africa, particularly the phenomenon of child soldiers, and stresses the need for the protection of children in armed conflicts, post conflict counselling, rehabilitation and education

The next footage depicts the aftermath of a massacre showing children bodies, and human parts covered with blood.

After graduating, Mayo spent two years working in infant health in England, Ireland and India.

The G8 nations have been incredibly generous on polio over the last 20 years, but we're starting to have something called polio fatigue and that is that the donor nations aren't willing to fund polio any longer.

The idea was born after activist Mahmoud Sadaka saw a number of drawings that children living in the camp had made.

It is our duty to protect children in war torn and post conflict societies.

(h) To address the gender dimension of all forms of violence against children and incorporate a gender perspective in all policies adopted and actions taken to protect children against all forms of violence

3.2 The author claims that unborn children are victims of a violation of article 26 of the Covenant, as the State party does not treat unborn children as equal before the law, and does not provide them with legal protection.

She and her 72 year old husband have, she says, longed for a child through 55 years of marriage.

Cessation by the 1.1 billion current smokers is needed to lower tobacco deaths over the next few decades.

Liver injury is extremely rare after acute accidental ingestion in children under 6 years of age.

In contrast, 30 50 of children may have a normal urinalysis at the end of 10 years.

The scourge of child soldiers has not yet been brought under control and remains a topic of great concern for the United Nations.

The right of custody of the children after the dissolution of marriage depends upon the religion and the sect to which the spouses belong.

A 2010 2011 study by the Australia Early Development Index found the most common language spoken by children after English was Arabic, followed by Vietnamese, Greek, Chinese, and Hindi.

(a) Ensure children are placed in institutions only following proper judicial proceedings and that children in institutions maintain contact with their parents or other caregivers, and that it facilitate, when possible, return of institutionalized children to their families or extended families

In 13 other cases, adoptive and biological families agreed on jointly raising the children after they had been identified.