Difference Between Reproduction And Human Development

Many people grew up to think that conceiving a child, giving birth, and planning a family is easy. However, there is so much meaning that is embedded in culture that needs to be taken into account that can complicate the process. Some cultures place emphasis on having a boy, some expect you to have multiple children, and then, depending what country you live in, if you can’t have kids then you are out of luck because they don’t have the necessary medical practices which means the hope of having a family of your own is slim. Once you have the children, a whole new set of rules and expectations come into play that even further complicates the idea that you raise a child and ship them off. To truly understand reproduction and human development, one can’t look solely at the biological side of things. Culture plays, in my opinion, an even bigger role in family planning and dynamic, so it should be addresses as well. The first topic that should be addressed the in the difference between sex and gender. Sex …show more content…
With all of these factors that I have mentioned about reproduction and human development, it I obvious that these aspects aren’t a simple biological process. There is so much more that comes into play. When reproduction is acceptable, how to attract people, how many children to have; they are all aspects that are deemed by culture as to whether or when something is appropriate. Some men want as many as 45 children, which seems ludicrous and impossible to me, until it was pointed out that that man has more than one wife to consider. The thought of having more than one wife doesn’t cross my mind very often because it isn’t too common in my culture. Culture has a hold on everything, and for those that try to understand customs and expectations without first learning their culture will never grain access to the reasonings behind why things are the way they