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High fertility strains budgets of poor families, reducing available resources to feed, educate, & provide health care to children. Conversely, many characteristics of poverty contribute to high fertility -- high infant mortality, lack of education for women, too little family income to "invest" in children, inequitable shares in national income, & inaccessibility of family planning. Experience in China, Indonesia, Taiwan, Colombia, Korea, Sri Lanka, Cuba, & Costa Rica shows, however, that fertility can fall rapidly in low-income groups when health care, education, & family planning services are made widely available. It appears that adequate delivery & targeting of these services, primarily by governments, a key to breaking the nexus between poverty & high fertility, & to reducing the negative effects of both on the lives & prospects of children. 2 Tables, 82 References. HA