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topics under category "Contraception
(Birth Control) and Family Planning".
Contraception (birth control)
is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, or medications followed in
order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of a woman
becoming pregnant or giving birth. Therefore contraception is the
utilization of various and sundry surgical procedures, devices,
practices, agents, or drugs with the intention of preventing conception
or impregnation (pregnancy). Methods and intentions typically termed
birth control may be considered a pivotal ingredient to family
planning. Birth control is a controversial political and ethical
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Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning |
| Confidential reproductive health services for minors: the potential impact |
| of mandated parental involvement for contraception. |
| Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. 2004;36(5):182-191. |
| Context: Recent legislative efforts to implement mandated parental involvement for minor adolescents seeking family |
| planning services threaten the rights of adolescents younger than 18 to access reproductive health care. Methods: |
| State and federal laws and policies pertaining to minor adolescents' rights to access services for contraception and |
| sexually transmitted diseases are reviewed, and research examining issues of parental involvement among |
| adolescents using clinic-based reproductive health service is synthesized. Results: Attempts to mandate parental |
| involvement for reproductive health care often focus on contraceptive services and are typically linked to federal or |
| state funding. Studies of teenagers using clinic-based family planning services suggest that slightly more than one- |
| half would obtain contraceptives at family planning clinics even if parental notification were required. Mandated |
| parental involvement for contraception would discourage few teenagers from having sex, but would likely result in |
| more teenagers' using the least effective methods, such as withdrawal, or no method at all. Family planning clinics |
| encourage teenagers to voluntarily talk to their parents, but relatively little information is available about the extent to |
| which activities to promote parent- child communication have been adopted. Conclusions: Mandated parental |
| involvement for teenagers seeking contraceptive care would likely contribute to increases in rates of teenage |
| pregnancy. Research that will help clinics implement and improve efforts to encourage voluntary parental involvement |
| is urgently needed. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT1T 505-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Confidential reproductive health services for minors: the |
| potential impact of mandated parental involvement for contraception.", is(are) Jones RK; Boonstra H. The source of |
| this article is "Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. 2004;36(5):182-191.". This article was published in |
| 2004 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT1T 505-06. All rights reserved with |
| This article is peer-reviewed. |
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