They pointed out that the reduction was mainly due to a fall in the fertility rate (the number of children a woman is expected to have in her lifetime) in the 1970s when the government began to encourage delayed marriages, longer intervals between births and fewer children.
Since education is compulsory until high school in China, to ensure that sex-education programs reach all adolescents in time to encourage delaying sexual activity, junior high school-based programs may be an effective avenue for reaching this target group before they start engaging in sexual activity.
FROB capital isn't cheap, either, which may also have encouraged delay.
Johnson believed that Congressional business was too slow and tedious, and that the per diem system of compensation encouraged delays on the part of members.
A strategy that encourages delayed sexual debut, monogamy and condom use is important to control the spread of STI/HIV, but this approach requires a level of female empowerment and control in sexual relationships often lacking for young women.
Newborns are usually bathed immediately after birth, but there is some evidence of changing trends since clinics are encouraging delayed bathing.
This included policies targeted to improve women's quality of life such as encouraging delaying the age at which one marries; reducing maternal mortality; increasing participation in education, the labor force, and economic and political spheres; limiting family size through independent family planning; and encouraging men to take a greater role in family life.
Yet it remains to be seen how these policies might encourage or delay greater investment, which will be needed to meet even sluggish energy demand growth.
Parent child communication about sexuality has been shown to encourage (i) delayed onset of first sexual activity [ 43, 44], (ii) increased sexual abstinence [ 43, 44] (iii) increased partner communication [ 45] and (iv) practice of safer sex, if sexually active, through condom use [ 44- 46].
Being encouraged to delay dealing with debt is no good for anyone.
