Chapter 8 subject is of Parenthood. The chapter focus on fundamental factors going into being parents and what changes have occurred over time. The world's population is rising fast and in the next 30 years we could reach a population of 11 billion. The fertility rate has gone down significantly in the last 60 year's though developing nations, but the decline in mortality rates have made it possible for population growth. People are encouraged 2 had children in society with it being a cultural value known as pronatalism. The chapter brings up that The age in which people are birthing children as risen from to 25 from 21.4 years of the 1970s. It's next big topic is about the meaning of adoption and the difference between and open and closed
