Demonstrate the ability to create a final project that uses both research-based and personal content while using presentation software to communicate with an intended audience. I’ve already started the research, just need it to be written asap. Use the sources provided (besides the apus library one since it is only for students)
– source evalution
Part I: Topic – Why are more people choosing to not have children?
For my project, I have decided to write a paper on falling birth rates. Not only in the United States, but in other countries. As someone who is in a child-free by choice marriage, my wife and I have our own reasons as to why we don’t want children. At least right now or the foreseeable future.
For us, it’s about how expensive it is to raise a child; and selfishly not wanting to share our life yet. Additionally, my wife has her own personal reasons as to not want to experience pregnancy or childbirth right now. Which she’s entitled too since she would be the one creating the life.
However, I would like to do some research on why others are choosing to be childless and how this affects birth rates. I will be using the United States and South Korea as examples. I say South Korea because of their ‘4B’ movement. Women in Korea are apparently fed up with the men and have been renouncing dating, intimacy, and pregnancy. This movement has made a difference in birth rates; some South Korean schools even report that they do not have 1st grade children. Meaning in the five years since the movement has started, the women in Korea have been able to erase an entire class.
I’d like to learn more and expand my understanding on this subject. This relates to my life directly as someone who doesn’t want children and is married to someone who feels the same way.
Part II: Source Evaluation
Article Title: In South Korea, world’s lowest fertility rate plunges again in 2023
Article Author(s): Jihoon Lee and Cynthia Kim
Retrieval Information (example website link): https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-koreas-fertility-rate-dropped-fresh-record-low-2023-2024-02-28/#:~:text=SEOUL%2C%20Feb%2028%20(Reuters),or%20to%20not%20have%20babies.
Source’s Publication Date: February 28, 2024
Publishing Information: Reuters
Source Summary:
Reports on South Koreas falling birth rate, the reasons for it, and what the government is attempting to do about it.
Article Title: You can’t even pay people to have more kids
Article Author(s): Anna North
Retrieval Information (example website link): https://www.vox.com/23971366/declining-birth-rate-fertility-babies-children
Source’s Publication Date: November 27, 2023
Publishing Information: Vox
Source Summary:
This article expands the scope of what the first one talks about. This article talks about the falling birth rates of the United States, Japan, and South Korea and the reasons causing this.
Article Title: Why some Americans don’t want kids?
Article Author(s): Patrick T. Brown
Retrieval Information (example website link): https://ifstudies.org/blog/why-some-americans-dont-want-kids#:~:text=The%20crosstabs%20suggest%20that%20for,in%20third%2C%20at%2018%20percent.
Source’s Publication Date: October 18, 2022
Publishing Information: Institute for Family Studies
Source Summary: This source dives a little deeper on why Americans do not want kids. It seems like some of the biggest reasons are economic status, careers, and environmental impact.
Article Title: The baby bust goes to school
Article Author(s): Michael J. Petrilli
Retrieval Information (example website link): https://www.proquest.com/docview/2248265687/fulltext/F81B258016154609PQ/1?accountid=8289&sourcetype=Scholarly%20Journals
Source’s Publication Date: 2019
Publishing Information: Proquest, APUS library
Source Summary:
This source goes into how falling birth rates affect public education.
