ossibly a cure for this disease in the future. Since the third world countries are not receiving enough funds they are unaware of the importance and are unable to spread the message of ways of preventing oneself from getting this disease.As has already been noted, the United States has tended to follow the recent pattern towards falling birth rates that have become characterized by most of the industrialized democracies of the West. Mattox (1995) notes in regard to the trend in the US: “In 1975 sixty two percent of all women aged 40-44 had given birth to three or more children over the course of their life-times. In 1988 only thirty-eight percent had done so. The percentage of those giving birth to just one child rose from 9 to 15 percent during the same time period” (p17). There could be several reasons why there is an increase of those giving birth to only one child. In older days it was known that women would stay home and raise the children as the men go out and make the money. Now that times have changed, you see a lot more women in the workplace. Women sometimes give birth at a later age because they are so busy with their career. In today’s society, people get married at a later age because they have to keep working to obtain income that is needed to help pay for their necessities. A reason why the population is still growing and there is a decrease in birth rates could be the fact that there are more cures for diseases that at one point were either not known or deadly.Overpopulation among the poorAll this might give one the impression that overpopulation is not a problem affecting the United States. However, “where birth rates have failed to decrease and in some cases have actually increased, has been among the poor, and especially among the inner-city welfare poor” (Widdison p209). Opposite to a widespread misinterpretation, welfare mothers do not tend to have especially large families, mo...
