FCFC 250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Voluntary Childlessness, Family And Medical Leave Act Of 1993, Open Adoption
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Average number of children born to women during her life-time. Number of children born per 1,000 women ages 15-44 (some other countries use 49 as the cut off age. Number of children born per 1,000 population. Mortality rate: a measure of the number of deaths in a population. Pronatalsim: a cultural value that encourages childbearing, found nearly everywhere. What is infertility: is the inability to get pregnant after 1 year of trying, medical treatment: Assisted reproductive technology (art): all fertility treatments in which either egg or sperm or both are handled: surrogacy: The act of giving birth to a child for another person or a couple who then adopts or takes legal custody of the child. Intended mother: the one receiving the child after it is born. This is the traditional method: male"s sperm is implanted into the surrogate mother (in this case the surrogate mother is both the genetic mother and the birth or gestational mother)