Religion and Babies TED Talk

Today in Human Geo Mr. Schick wasn't here, so we had to go to room 204 and do the work on Veracross, which was watch a video called the "Religion and Babies TED" talk. It was actually really interesting, bringing up how in different countries there are different amounts of babies per women and how some may think that's because of the different religions in all those countries. It doesn't, however. There were a few charts in the video that had some information on them. The first one, which was shown as the speaker was talking about Qatari, was titled Total Fertility Rate Per Woman said "the most important factors are as follows: increased age at first marriage, increased educational level of Qatari women, and more women integrated into the work force." The speaker also talked about how the number of babies per women decrease:

1. children survive 
2. many children are not needed for work
3. women get education and join the labor force 
4. family planning is accessable 

The less amount of children per woman will help with the population of the world greatly, and it will help even more if less people in poverty have less children- they can't afford to, they shouldn't need to have as many kids as they do just so they can live where they are. We've reached peak child, and the world population will probably reach to 10 billion or more. Religion has nothing to do with how many children per woman, the areas where the women live, and what they have to do to keep themselves where they are is. 

I also took the Sporcle quiz on the Veracross post and I didn't do so well, I got a 9/20. It's weird because most of the stuff you feel like you've heard it before or that it would be in a different book than it is. It was weird seeing some stuff I never thought the Bible said and stuff I never thought the Quran would say, because I never thought they were so similar.