Demographic Transition Model Scenarios

Billy White loses his job as a grave digger.

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Parents start to think more about family planning.

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Children are warmer in bed each night because they have more brothers and sisters.

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There are more Golden (50 years) Anniversaries being celebrated

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A mother sobs over the grave of her last six children who died in a typhoid epidemic.

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New home construction is rapidly increasing.

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The public health inspector smiles as the building of sewers is completed.

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Fewer children share a bedroom.

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Grandparents are very rare.

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There are more grandparents than grandchildren.

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