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YEAR: 1968

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Family size, contraception, and birth rate before and after the introduction

of a new method of family planning.

AUTHORS

Treffers PE

SOURCE

Journal of Marriage and the Family 30(2):338-345. May 1968.

ABSTRACT

This paper attempts to determine how family size, contraception, and birth rate are affected by the introduction of a

new family planning method. The data is extrapolated from an earlier research project in Amsterdam aimed at the

investigation of induced abortion and contraception. Interviews of 516 women hospitalized at the University of

Amsterdam were conducted between 1962-1964. 432 of these women were hospitalized for delivery after the 28th

week of pregnancy; and 84 had been hospitalized for complicated abortion. The highest social strata in Amsterdam

are not represented in this sample. Table 1 shows the relation between occupational group and desired family size,

and indicates strong evidence that women in the higher social strata desire larger families than in the lower strata.

Table 2 shows the relation between occupational groups and actual family size, and indicates that in the higher

social strata families are smaller. Table 3 shows months of exposure during marriage only and pregnancy rates for

various contraceptive methods. Table 4 shows occupational groups and contraceptive failures. Table 5 shows the

proportion of wanted pregnancies for every pregnancy number in delivery group and abortion group. Table 6 shows

birth rate and other demographic data in the Netherlands. Table 7 shows births and abortions in Hungary. Statistical

analyses of these tables are used to develop a theory about the consequences of the introduction of a new and easy

method of family planning, comparing the situation in the Netherlands with Hungary and other eastern European

countries. Provided that there is a powerful tendency towards family planning and a strong desire towards small

families, and where the contraceptive pattern is unsatisfactory and frustrating, a tension develops between desired

and actual family size. After the introduction of a new, easy, and effective method of family planning, this tension is

relieved, attened by 3 phenomena: 1) a rapid fall of the birth rate and a reduced average family size; 2) a very rapid

spread of the method among the population; and 3) rapid replacement of other contraceptives by the newly

introduced method. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT9T 1051-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Family size, contraception, and birth rate before and after

the introduction of a new method of family planning.", is(are) Treffers PE. The source of this article is "Journal of

Marriage and the Family 30(2):338-345. May 1968.". This article was published in 1968 in English language(s).

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