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This free course was written by Pam Foley.

Except for third party materials and otherwise stated in the acknowledgements section, this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .

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Images

Figure 1: Bartosz Hadyniak: Getty Images

Figure 2: Kameleon007: iStockphoto.com

Figure 3: World Health Organisation; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo/

Figure 4: nattrass; iStockphoto.com

Figure 6: BSIP; Getty Images

Figure 7: DFID in Flickr https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nd/ 2.0/

Figure 10: Josef Friedhuber; iStockphoto.com

Figure 11: Stepanie Rausser; Getty Images

Figure 12: KatarzynaBialasiewicz/iStockphoto.com

Figure 13: ineskoleva/iStock Photo

Figures 14, 15 and 16: Maps based on United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2015). World Contraceptive Use 2015 (POP/DB/CP/Rev2015). See: http://www.un.org/ en/ development/ desa/ population/ publications/ dataset/ contraception/ wcu2015.shtml

Figure 17: Stefan Hoedrath; Getty Images

Figure 18: Ullstein Bild; Getty Images

Figure 19: Zhou Yuwei, 1986 in Flickr https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 2.0/

Figure 20: jumaydesigns; iStockphoto.com

Figure 21: Allkindza; iStockphoto.com

Figure 22: © Milla Kontkanen; Alamy

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Figure 24: gisele/iStockphoto.com

Figure 25: DFID UK in Flickr made available under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Text

Extract from the Save the Children report, State of the World’s Mother, pp. 56–9 © Save the Children (2013)

Extract from May, J.F. (2012) World Population Politics: Their Origin Evolution and Impact, London, Springer, pp. 261–2

Extract from Hartas, D. (2014) Parenting, Family Policy and Children’s Well-being in an Unequal Society: A New Culture War for Parents, London, Palgrave Macmillan.

Audio visual

Video: Early Roman Birth. 2nd Century : © The Open University and its licensors

Demographic Transition: KHAN Academy (2014) .https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

Hans Rosling: Don’t Panic: The Truth About Population: Wingspan Productions Limited

Extract from ‘Parents with disabilities’: © BBC, We Won’t Drop the Baby

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