Step-families and Childbearing Desires in Europe

Characteristics of the childbearing population in Europe.

OBJECTIVE To report the distribution and availability of the indicators describing the population of childbearing women in Europe and to assess the impact of the difference in the distribution of two of these indicators (age and multiple births) on some outcome indicators. METHODS The six PERISTAT indicators of population characteristics were computed using data from a survey of data provider...

Partnerships With Childbearing Women and Families

Providing patientand family-centered care is not a simple endeavor. It requires a transformation in organizational culture that is ref lected in a myriad of details at the departmental, clinical, and individual provider and patient levels. Patientand family-centered practitioners know that it is not a recipe or formula of specific practices, but an evolving approach that guides policy and progr...

Practical Steps of Intervention Design to increase the Childbearing Desires: An Intervention Mapping Approach

Background: Increasing the desire to have children is one of the important priorities of health systems, which requires targeted planning. This paper describes the development an intervention program using an intervention mapping approach (IMA) to increase the childbearing desires  Methods: Between July to November 2022, steps of the IMA process were completed. Beginning with the needs assessm...

Center for Demography and Ecology University of Wisconsin-Madison Couple Childbearing Desires, Intentions and Births

New panel data from the National Surveys of Families and Households are used to investigate effects of wives’ and husbands’ childbearing desires on their partners’ intentions, and the effects of couples’ desires and intentions on subsequent births. The results show clearly that husbands’ desires and intentions influence couples’ births, with approximately equal force to that of wives’ desires a...

Problem Families in Europe and Asia