Topic: Declining Fertility Rate
Research Question: The fertility rate is declining globally at the age of improving living standards. Have material needs overtaken human reproductive instincts?
My next step is to find out:
- Racial, Educational, Financial factors in declining fertility rate
- The social-economic effects of the declining fertility rate
- The government response, efforts to influence or reverse the change
- Effectiveness of those policies
I will most likely be looking at more than one country since the fertility rate is declining globally, and governments responded differently.
A more detailed research question needs to be developed once I read more about the case. My research question now, ‘Has material concerns overtaken human reproductive instincts’ is based on the premise that financial hardship is the main cause of lowered fertility rate. This assumption might be wrong.