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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Kings typically hankered after male heirs, because power was vested through filial lineage, and distributed through tribal affiliations.

In agricultural societies about 20 per cent of all couples would not have children because of problems for at least one of the partners.

There was a middle aged couple who had two stunningly beautiful teenage daughters, but who decided to try one last time for the son they had always wanted.

Beyond that, a feedback mechanism appears to be in place cities with more entrepreneurs tend to beget still more entrepreneurs.

More than 1 3 of those who planned giving birth to a child claimed they first wanted to secure themselves financially, 30 stated problems connected with housing and studies.

The payment recognizes the extra costs associated with the birth or adoption of a child, including loss of income while on unpaid maternity leave.

Article 1 of the protocol requires parties to protect the rights and interests of child victims of trafficking, child prostitution and child pornography, child labour and especially the worst forms of child labour.

The story is set in a near future, where a pharmacological company markets, in the guise of a traditional folk remedy, a drug by which parents can choose to only have sons.

In accordance to the provisions of law 3089 2002 on medical support to human reproduction , provides the terms and requirements for artificial insemination and allows unmarried women to have children in this manner.

Child labour, child kidnapping, child trafficking

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Chairperson's statements

The risk of having an abnormal child through IVF has turned out to be no greater than when parents of a similar age conceive though sexual intercourse.

The same rights to decide freely and responsibly 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.

Prevention and eradication of the sale of children and of their sexual exploitation and abuse, including child prostitution and child pornography

Prevention and eradication of the sale of children and of their sexual exploitation and abuse, including child prostitution and child pornography

The most flagrant violation of children's rights was the sale of children.

The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929 prohibits child marriages.

The Committee also monitors implementation of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (OP AC) and the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (OP SC).

e. The same rights to decide freely and responsibly 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

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (2002)