AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Religion still plays a central role in family planning today, as the results suggest. “Our study confirms that practicing Christians, i.e., those who regularly attend church services, want and actually have more children than nominal Christians and non-religious people, ” says OeAW demographer Isabella Buber-Ennser.

Detailed explanation-2: -Religion has very little to do with the number of babies per woman. Hans Rosling examines religion’s influence on birth rates by comparing nations which have a majority of one of three religious faiths: Christianity, Islam, and all Eastern religions grouped together.

Detailed explanation-3: -Decomposing differences in fertility However, at these ages women who report that religion is very important to them have higher intended fertility than other women, and at older ages more religious women have both higher intentions and higher numbers of children ever born.

Detailed explanation-4: -Results from such studies show that religiosity tends to be a better predictor of fertility than simple denominational affiliation alone (Adserà 2006a). In general, more religious respondents tend to have more children and have a higher ideal number of children than less religious respondents (Adserà 2006a, b).