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YEAR: 1968

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

From now to zero: fertility, contraception and abortion in America.

AUTHORS

Westoff LA; Westoff CF

SOURCE

Boston, Massachusetts, Little, Brown, 1968. xxi, 358 p.

ABSTRACT

This 1971 monograph, which is written for a general audience, addresses the issues of whether the US has an

overpopulation problem, whether elimination of unintentional fertility would create tolerable growth, and whether there

is a need for a national population policy. The objective was to publicize the findings from the 1965 US National

Fertility Survey. Chapter topics include reproductive patterns among subgroups and the risk of conception among

various frequencies of intercourse, contraceptive methods and risks, abortion, Catholic attitudes toward abortion, the

baby boom and fertility trends, the higher fertility among Blacks, unwanted fertility, and the prospects for a population

policy. Rainwater is cited for his suggestion that Black family and child bearing patterns can be changed by

education of the next generation, employment, and pride in Negro and American identity. Moynihan is cited for his

argument that Blacks in lower socioeconomic groups are moving in the direction of greater family instability and

fewer two-parent families. Statistics for 1965 indicated few general differences in Black and White ever use of

contraception. Large racial differences in contraception were apparent only in the fringes of large cities and more

distant rural areas. Rural Blacks in the South had low use rates. Both races living in poverty had low contraceptive

use rates. Although Black fertility was higher, it followed the same trend as White fertility. The impact of increased

education on fertility for Blacks was greater than for Whites. Lack of proper education about contraception is noted

as contributory to use of less reliable methods of contraception among the poor. In 1959 the government considered

family planning a private affair. In 1961 foreign aid was offered to countries interested in dealing with overpopulation.

By 1968 the government identified family planning and maternal-child health care as a domestic concern and a

foreign aid priority. By 1973 family planning information and services were made available on a voluntary basis to all

who wanted but could not afford them. The Family Planning and Population Research Act was signed into law in

1970. An Office of Population Affairs was established. The most far reaching Presidential message on the

population issues was identified as having been made by President Nixon in 1969. (PubHealth.info Document ID:

CONT9T 1062-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "From now to zero: fertility, contraception and abortion in

America.", is(are) Westoff LA; Westoff CF. The source of this article is "Boston, Massachusetts, Little, Brown,

1968. xxi, 358 p.". This article was published in 1968 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID:

CONT9T 1062-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 41062

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