Human population, over the last 200 years, has skyrocketed. ... During the coming decade the increased population of one billion people is the equivalent of adding an extra China to the world's population (Population Connection 2003). A recent joint statement by the US National Academy of Sciences and the British Royal Society finds that the population is growing at a rate that will lead to doubling by 2050. ... Chiras gives several strategies to stabilizing the human population. ... Last, Chiras goes over the religious barriers facing population control. ...

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Crude birth rate had fallen from 37 to 20 per thousand and life expectancy had doubled drastically from approximately 35 years to 66 years. ... Such services prompted rapid population growth, which was initially seen as an economic boom. ... Not long after, the growing population was taking much of the nation's food supply. ... The campaign proved to be successful as China's population dropped by half rom 1970 to 1976; but shortly population leveled off. ... China's population is aging, leaving a smaller workforce to care for a vast number of elderly citizens. ...

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The graph illustrates that the rate of teen pregnancies amongst Hispanic and African American teen girls ages 15-19 are double the rate of non-Hispanic white teenagers. ... Between 1988 and 1995 the amount of adolescent females who first had sex at age 14 or younger almost doubled (Domenico & Jones 6). ... Only 28 percent of the abused girls used birth control the first time they engaged in intercourse compared to 74 percent of girls in the general population (Malika Saada Saar 1). ...

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