Fertility Stereotypes

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Fertility percentage is based upon the number of babies born alive a year (Taghizadeh Ziba, et al 1+).
Additionally, fertility percentage is effected by more than just babies born (Taghizadeh Ziba, et al 1+). In other words, it is effected by emotions, cultures, political views, and how often thing change around the area (Taghizadeh Ziba. et al 1+). Human rights activists insist “Human behavior is a function of social and cultural environment and individual and cultural differences that exist between individuals and communities cause different reproductive behavior” (Taghizadeh Ziba, et al 1). Meanwhile, there have been strategies used to control birth and manage a population (Taghizadeh Ziba. et al 2+). On the other hand, the last decades

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