Birth has become a phenomenon of increasing concern. The population of Romania has decreased and is constantly decreasing, the downward evolution is not surprising, all the information on the natural and migratory movement after 1989 define a well-installed demographic decline. | Social perception about birth as a demographic phenomenon Technium Social Sciences Journal Vol. 4 135-147 March 2020 ISSN 2668-7798 Social perception about birth as a demographic phenomenon Sandu Mihaela Luminița Ovidius University of Constanta Romania mihaela_naidin@ Rus Mihaela Ovidius University of Constanta Romania Psiholog_m@ Pruteanu Lavinia Petre Andrei University of Iași Romania Lavinia_pruteanu@ Abstract. Birth has become a phenomenon of increasing concern. The population of Romania has decreased and is constantly decreasing the downward evolution is not surprising all the information on the natural and migratory movement after 1989 define a well-installed demographic decline. Romania s demographic decline is gaining new dimensions and amplifying the deterioration of the country s demographic situation. What is less known and evaluated at the true value is the depth of the deterioration of the age structure of the population in the context of the demographic decline and the implications of this deterioration from the perspective of the possible recovery of the demographic state of the country. The present demographic evolutions respectively the characteristics of the components that have produced and are still producing these evolutions foreshadow a strongly negative image regarding the population of Romania in the next decades if by public policies the birth ratio will not be stimulated. Keywords. birth phenomenon demography The concept of birth The birth rate of the population characterizes quot the mass of living births within a human community bounded by characteristics of time and space. The intensity of the population s birth rate shall be determined for the period of the calendar year quot Sora Mihăescu 1996 p. 133 . The demographic phenomenon of birth is part of the natural movement of the population. Childbirth best expresses the dual character of demographic phenomena. Natality is the basic .
