A paper charting the “remarkable speed of fertility decline and the equally remarkable increase in female education” in Iran, but I thought this conclusion was more interesting:
[M]ore important[ly], there are many channels of informal education and learning that contribute to value changes, changes in desired family size, more information and better access to family planning, and hence, directly or indirectly contribute to fertility decline.
Willow 10:00 am on February 25, 2009 Permalink |
This is a general complaint, but I feel like calling falling birth rates “fertility decline” is really prejudicial. (Are these surveys designed by anti-abortion/anti-family planning neocons?) The average person might be led to believe that women are really getting less fertile, as opposed to having fewer children thanks to artificial methods of birth control.
Children of Men, etc.
danyal 12:18 pm on February 25, 2009 Permalink |
Yet the Sunni mullahs in the rest of the Muslim world (namely Pakistan and Yemen) as well as Taliban apologists continue to insist that contraceptives and family planning are haram lol
abunoor 12:35 pm on February 25, 2009 Permalink |
Danyal,
We actually discussed this issue recently here on Talk Islam and there is certainly no consensus view among Sunni Muslim scholars that contraception is haram…of course there is a general recommendation to have children and there would be concern about large scale state organized “family planning.” I, of course, don’t know what local “mullahs” in Pakistan or Yemen are teaching…
in any event, beyond all that I don’t really see what’s funny?