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SUMMARY:Cambridge Reproduction Forum: Why do people have children? - Full 
 programme to be confirmed
DTSTART:20250312T150000Z
DTEND:20250312T190000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Today over half the global population lives in states or natio
 ns with below replacement-level fertility. In some populations a quarter o
 r more of 50 year-old women have never had children. While many states\, e
 conomists\, evolutionary biologists and demographers (not to mention journ
 alists) puzzle over why so many people are choosing to have few or no chil
 dren\, these patterns raise the more fundamental question of why people ha
 ve children at all. \nIn this forum we will gather biologists\, economists
 \, anthropologists\, sociologists\, psychologists\, demographers and histo
 rians to ask:  What are children for?\n\n* Do they offer to fulfil an evol
 utionary urge to transmit genetic attributes or to nurture?\n* Do we expec
 t them to perpetuate our identity or lineage\, to make us happy\, or to pr
 ovide security in sickness and old age?\n* And to what extent can these ro
 les be substituted by non-biological strategies\, including adoption\, ext
 ended family or non-kin support\, non-human relationships\, or other forms
  of self-realisation?\n* Could social norms change so far as to make biolo
 gical reproduction a minority choice\, as some demographers have suggested
 ?\n* What roles do social norms play\, and how influential is the two-chil
 d norm that has been associated with replacement-level fertility and with 
 many family planning programmes?\n\nThe afternoon will feature interdiscip
 linary conversation and flash talks from academics across the university\,
  followed by a networking reception. \n\nRegistration open! \nhttps://www.
 eventbrite.co.uk/e/1151888342039?aff=oddtdtcreator\n
LOCATION:East 2 Room\, West Hub\, JJ Thomson Ave\, Cambridge CB3 0US
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