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The Grandchild gap : effects of low birth rates
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Birth rates in the industrialized world are lower than ever, and many people are concerned. This program, hosted by Ben Wattenberg, explores the phenomenon, and what it may mean in social and human...
Birth rates in the industrialized world are lower than ever, and many people are concerned. This program, hosted by Ben Wattenberg, explores the phenomenon, and what it may mean in social and human terms. Wattenberg and a panel of population experts are fearful that programs such as Social Security, which rely on taxes paid into the system by younger workers, may be jeopardized. On location in France and Italy-two countries with the lowest birth rates-experts predict a 30 percent decrease in population if current fertility levels persist. The human consequence of the problem-a "grandchild shortage"-is discussed as being potentially damaging to traditional family values and lifestyles.
Details
- Creator
- Team Sound & Vision Inc
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2007], c1997
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (56 min.) : sd., col., digital file
- digital
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781421381312
- OCLC
- ocn707970820
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on May 23, 2007.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Demographics and Fertility Rates (4:52) -- Declining Birth Rates in U.S. and Around the World (5:54) -- Italy and France's Low Fertility Rates (6:51) -- Low Fertility Rates in Developing Countries and World Population (2:43) -- Causes for Declining Global Fertility Rates (5:33) -- Feminist Movement (2:43) -- Economic and Personal Effects of Declining Fertility Rates (5:01) -- Grandchildren Shortage (4:00) -- Effects of Lower Fertility Fates (3:32) -- Remedies for Declining Fertility Rates (5:04) -- Declining Birth Rates: Pro-Natal Policies (5:15)