Abortions preventable by contraceptive practice.
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Abortion, Legal↗
Biomedical subjects
C F Westoff
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Women's reactions to pregnancy.
Four in 10 married white women who said that they wanted no more children and subsequently had a birth reported that birth as wanted and said their reaction to it had been positive. Only seven percent of those who said they wanted more children reported a subsequent birth as unwanted.
Birth Order↗
Contraceptive practice and trends in coital frequency.
Coital frequency among white, continuously married couples increased by 19 percent between 1965 and 1970, but by only five percent between 1970 and 1975. All of the increase in the latter five-year period is connected with a greater concentration of women in pregnancy-exposure and contraceptive-use categories associated with higher coital frequency. Over the five years, individual women who switched to more effective methods did not, on the average, experience as much of a decline in coital frequency as those who changed to less effective methods and those who did not change methods. (Some decline would be expected to be associated with the five-year increase in age.)
Adolescent↗
Contraception and sterilization in the United States, 1965-1975.
Although the pill remains the most popular method of contraception among young married women, sterilization is now the method of choice among couples married a decade or more, as well as among couples who have had all the children they want. Indeed, contraceptive and medical sterilizations combined now comprise the most frequent barrier to conception among all married couples of reproductive age. Three-quarters of couples using contraception now use the most effective methods, the pill, sterilization or the IUD, and the trend data suggest a continuing increase in the reliance on such methods.
Adult↗
Intention to use contraceptives and subsequent contraceptive behavior in Morocco.
In this article, the relationship between stated intention to use contraceptives and subsequent use during a three-year period in Morocco is examined. Longitudinal data are drawn from two Demographic and Health Surveys: the 1992 Morocco DHS and the 1995 Morocco Panel Survey. Reported contraceptive intentions in 1992 have a strong predictive effect on subsequent contraceptive use even after controlling for other characteristics of respondents, and the strength of the effect is second only to that of previous contraceptive use. Women who in 1992 said they intended to use contraceptives in the future but did not do so are the most likely to have had an unmet need for contraception in 1995. Weakly held fertility preferences reported by some of the women surveyed in 1992 appear to have been a contributing factor in the subsequent failure of these women to act upon their intention to practice contraception.
Adolescent↗
The secularization of U.S. Catholic birth control practices.
Except for sterilization, Catholic and non-Catholic contraceptive practices are now quite similar. Within several years, even sterilization will probably be adopted by the same proportions of Catholics as non-Catholics, and the rhythm method is destined to be of historical interest only. The wide gulf between official Catholic doctrine and the birth control behavior of Catholics can only deepen in the next few years.
Adolescent↗