I add about 1/2 cup of baking soda to every load of laundry. We have pretty hard water. The baking soda softens it so that it is more effective at washing away the detergent. Been doing this for a couple of years and I have noticed that our towels don't lose absorbency like towels we've had in the past.
The average number of children each woman will have over the course of her lifetime is called the Fertility Rate In 2011, the overall global life expectancy for both men and women was
Childbearing Years The reproductive age span of women, assumed for statistical purposes to be 15-44 or 15-49 years of age. Child-Woman Ratio The number of children under age 5 per 1,000 women ages 15-44 or 15-49 in a population in a given year. This crude fertility measure, based on basic census data, is sometimes used when more specific fertility information is not available.