1. Demographic Transition Model Theory: Fictional Families Activity
Create a fictional family for stage 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5? to illustrate the demographic changes that occur over time.
Requirements Checklist:
Name your fictional family members for each separate stage!
Illustrate your fictional families for each stage
Where do they live?
Explain their lifestyle,  environment,  conditions,  resources, etc. Key terms must be used in your explanations (i.e. IMR, TFR, etc).
Also explain what is happening amongst the total population around them. What changes are happening and why?

2. MAP QUIZ!

3. Why do populations rise or fall?

4. Population: Growth Decline
Contraceptive Use
Education
Government Policy
Women’s Rights

5. Education Women’s Rights Improvement of economic conditions is key:
Wealthier communities have more to spend on education and health care.
More educated women have greater economic control over their lives.
More educated women better understand their reproductive rights, make more informed choices, and select more effective contraception.
Better health care leads to lower IMRs.
Lower IMRs lead to higher likelihood of contraception use.
Education is key because educated women are more likely to know what social, community, and health services, including family planning, are available and to have the confidence to use them. In addition, women with more education have more opportunities outside the home and can see the benefits of education for their children. Women who achieve a relatively high level of education are also more likely to enter the labor force before they marry or begin childbearing, and ultimately to have smaller families than women who marry in their teens. 

6. http://www. prb. org/Publications/Lesson-Plans/HumanPopulation/Women

7. Contraceptive Use Significant increase in the 1960s and 1970s.
From 10% to 50% in the 1990s.
*Traditional versus Modern types of contraceptive use.

8. Types of Government Policy
Expansive
(Pro-Natalist): encourage population growth
Restrictive
(Anti-Natalist):
discourage population growth
Eugenic:
Encourage population growth of specific ethnic & racial groups
Many governments institute policies designed to influence the overall growth rate or ethnic ratios within the population.

9. Expansion Population Policy
Why?
Replace those lost at war
Build up the military
Replace retiring folks
Support the increasing number of seniors
Occupy parts of a country that are unoccupied.
Develop resources of the state
Lead to economic growth
increase majority/minority percentages
Gain more influence internationally
USSR - Starting on July 8, 1944 the government of the U.S.S.R. began awarding medals to women in order to encourage a high fertility rate.

10. September 12 The “Day of Conception” Immigration Incentives
Russia’s Population Policies (2006)
Cash Incentives for Children
The “Day of Conception”
Immigration Incentives
September 12
In 2006, Vladimir Putin, in his state of the union speech began new policies to increase Russia’s population.

12. Sweden –
1980s – couples with small children received tax incentives, job leaves, work flexibility for 8 years
Early 1990s – mini baby boom
However, in mid-1990s the economy slowed and so did the baby boom

13. Restrictive Population Policy
Why?
Cannot afford to provide for them
Overpopulation concerns: limited available resources
Allow more women in the workforce and boost economy
Repress a group of people

14. China’s One Child Policy
Benefits Given to Families with 1 Child
A fine imposed for additional children
More successful in Urban areas
free medical care
free daycare and schooling
guaranteed job for child
bonuses for parents
extra maternity leave
better housing
bigger old age pension
must repay financial benefits
educational, medical benefits, & guaranteed jobs are withdrawn
parents’ wages reduced
Beginning in 1980, one-child policy
Financial and other incentives to limit family size
Greater prosperity in China has led to a relaxation of one-child policy
Now a stronger emphasis on education as family planning
Family-planning fees

16. India’s Population Policies
Launched it’s sterilization campaign between 1975 and 1977.
“Wait until the 1st child is 3 before having your 2nd!”
Beginning in 1971, citizens paid to be sterilized
Now a stronger emphasis on education as family planning
Limited success

17. Kenya’s Population Policies

18. Eugenic Policy: Examples
Germany: focused on "Aryanizing" German blood, preventing marriage or any sexual contact between Christians and Jews & formalized the killing of those deemed "lives unworthy of living," targeting first children and later adults with mental and/or physical disabilities
United States: Practiced involuntary sterilization of those who were “genetically inferior” (genetic illnesses, insanity, etc) and restricted “White” people from marrying or having children with “Non-White” people.
India's Hindu extremist party, the VHP, has asked the government to enforce family planning measures on the Muslim population, saying its rapid increase is "detrimental" to Hindus in the country.
In the 1970s and 1980s the government of Czechoslovakia sponsored a policy that strove to reduce the nation's Romani population through involuntary sterilization.