How is giving women autonomy of their fertility an act of control? Is freedom to choose an act of control? I have always thought of control to be the forcing of a certain outcome upon others. By this definition the denial of family planning services becomes an act of control and its supply confers autonomy.

I just saw a post on page 15 by I want say whom trying to explain how the education of woman results in lower fertility rates. What a load of crap!

Obviously the writer whose name I cannot say is absolutely confused about how the world of people works within a social context. It's easy to see why he doesn't list sociology, history and anthropology among his credits. Plus he took so long to say it that it reminds me of one of my favourite one liners: a man with little knowledge takes a long time to tell you what little he knows.

Education provides an opportunity for women to get high paying and high status jobs. A woman in a high paying high status job will delay having children in order to pursue her career and income earning capacity. If this is a general trend there will result a decline in the fertility rate of the social group. Education is one of the pathways to this end but is not sine qua non for achieving lower fertility rates as he whose name I dare not say would advocate.

Foxy,
There's no written indigenous records from pre-invasion times. All I could find is some Dutch accounts of "the people being treacherous & wretched".

It's easy to see why he doesn't list sociology, history and anthropology among his credits
Mr Opinion,
Simple explanation for that, it doesn't feed the starving nor do the above mentioned prevent more births that the parents are unable to feed.
If those sociologists had an ounce of integrity they would stop wasting taxpayer money & use it to help the underprivileged instead of constantly biting the hands that feed them !

Mr O,

Education and availability of contraception correlate with lower fertility. You can rubbish the attempts to explain it, but the correlation stands. Seeing as you are so dissatisfied with the explanations, perhaps you could set the standard you would like from others and give a real world example of where the correlation has broken down?

Cheers

Loudmouth, yes I think that did happen. However whoever was given the
farm just looked at it and never had the nouse to employ or make an
arrangement with those that might have know how to run a farm.
After the new owners walked off, why didn't the original workers come
back ?
The land is still there and is no one working it ?
The economy jas collapsed. Are they living on aid ?
Frankly I don't think they are capable, no matter what the ownership.