Today in class we watched a video on Japans population and birth rates in India. Firstly, in Japan, school enrollment is way down, being that in the video a boys class was just him since kindergarten. It was also noted that 1/3 of everyone living in Japan is currently a senior. This is not good for Japan, since they're population will be just decreasing.
In India, every woman is expected to bear at least six children. This is because of two reasons: One is that the husband of the woman will usually want to have a least two or three boys. This is because in the Indian culture the boy will grow up to take care of his family and so on with the boys son. The second reason is due to children dying. In India currently, 1/10 children live to the age of five. So if a family has a boy, and only one boy, if he dies at the age of five and the mother cannot conceive any more children, they will not have someone to take care for them in their old age. Conceiving a girl is also bad to the husbands, being that if they have too many girls, he will often beat or burn the woman for not bearing a boy, which is not her fault.
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