Question

Reducing infant mortality helps control the growth of population by}

• A. controlling repeated childbirth to compensate for the mortality
• B. protecting the health of the mother
• C. increasing the gap between two births
• D. preventing the tendency to choose the sex of the prenatal child

Hint:

Lower infant mortality reduces the need for having more children, which helps in population control—this is a key demographic principle.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

Concept: High infant mortality influences reproductive behaviour because families tend to adjust the number of births based on the likelihood of child survival. Step 1:Understand the demographic response.
When infant mortality is high, parents often choose to have more children to ensure that some survive into adulthood.
Step 2:Consider the impact of reduced infant mortality.

• Improved child survival reduces the perceived need for having additional children
• This leads to a decline in repeated or compensatory childbirth

Step 3:Evaluate the options.

• (A) → Correct interpretation of reduced compensatory fertility behaviour
• (B) → Secondary or indirect effect
• (C) → Not the main causal explanation
• (D) → Irrelevant to the demographic mechanism

Final Answer: controlling repeated childbirth to compensate for the mortality