A. Italy’s practice of punishing couples who have two or more children.
B. china’s practice of fining a woman who is pregnant with a second child 20 per cent of her pay if she refuses to have an abortion.
C. France’s elimination of tax deductions for families with more than two children.
D. Brazil’s refusal to grant a divorce to couples with children
Related Mcqs:
- In developing nations which of the following influence(s) social change towards the liberal Western democratic style of society ?
A. literacy education and communication
B. a centrally dominated social order
C. extreme social inequalities
D. homogenous social groups and organizations - Proponents of the family planning approach to fertility reduction argue that______________?
A. economic development will lead to a reduction in fertility
B. governments consider modern contraceptive measures to be a threat to the preservation and continuation of their way of life.
C. if contraceptives are made available and if information about the value and need for birth planning is disseminated people will reduce their fertility
D. people can be coerced into using family planning techniques - The general fertility rate fell between 1964 and 2000 because of_______________?
A. increases in the age of marriage and the age at which childbearing begins
B. there being fewer women of childbearing age than there were in the first half of the century
C. errors in the measurement of birth rates and production of statistics
D. the risk diseases caused by poverty poor housing and bad sanitation - In Pakistan society no laws were made for the protection of elderly citizens the major cause was the belief_____________?
A. That they can look after themselves
B. The sons are responsible
C. The daughters are responsible
D. None of these - How has Grace Davie (1994) characterized the general religious position within Western Europe ?
A. religious pluralism with many gods
B. believing without belonging
C. secularization against religion
D. belonging without believing - The global spread of democracy is probably the most striking trend in geopolitics but in the established Western democracies what has now become a source of major concern ?
A. electoral fraud
B. the expanding number of small political parties
C. the decline in voter turnout
D. security problems with-e-voting - What is the term used by Francis Fukuyama (1992) to describe the triumph of Western-style democracy has over other forms of government ?
A. the end of history
B. the rise of neoliberalism
C. the fall of communism
D. the birth of nationalism - Western countries have a larger percentage of aged that is_____________?
A. 19.4%
B. 12%
C. 20%
D. None of these - Critics of the spread of Western cultural products across the globe argue that a cultural empire has been created What term do they use to describe this ____________?
A. media saturation
B. media globalization
C. media penetration
D. media imperialism - In western world urbanization has accompanied________________?
A. Trade
B. Progress
C. Industrialization
D. None of these
