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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
issue in many cultures and religions, and although it is generally less
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Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning |
| Fertility and poverty in the United States: some implications for family- |
| planning programs, evaluation, and research. |
| Journal of Marriage and the Family 30(2): 207-227. May 1968. |
| This survey of the literature finds that large family size is most likely to occur when family income is less than $2000 |
| a year, when the woman is not employed outside the home, when the family lives in a rural area or has rural origins, |
| and when educational level of the wife is 8th grade or less. When urbanized low-income families are less likely to |
| have unusually large families, they are more likely to marry sooner and have their children closer together than are |
| stable working-class and middle-income families. Since nonwhites are more likely to have lower incomes and |
| educational levels and are also more likely to have rural backgrounds, it is no surprise that nonwhites have larger |
| families than whites. The illegitimacy rate has increased rapidly over the period 1940-1966 fueled by high |
| unemployment rates, especially among blacks, welfare policies which discriminate against families in which a father |
| is present, and low contraceptive use among poor families. Studies done to date have been limited because they |
| have concentrated on white, middle-class, married couples. Several of the studies were done before modern |
| contraceptive methods were available and most of the classic surveys have been limited to 1 city or 1 geographic |
| area. Future research should focus on the social, psychological, and economic factors that influence family |
| planning, especially among lower-income families, which appeals can be used with such families, and the effects of |
| different types of delivery services. Administrative studies also need to be made. Future family planning efforts |
| should also be directed toward males. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT9T 1055-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Fertility and poverty in the United States: some |
| implications for family-planning programs, evaluation, and research.", is(are) Chilman CS. The source of this article |
| is "Journal of Marriage and the Family 30(2): 207-227. May 1968.". This article was published in 1968 in English |
| language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT9T 1055-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 41055 |
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