Taiwan's Family Planning
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Robert G. Potter, Ronald Freedman, Lien-Ping Chow ticipate are still practicing birth control and preventing many births some years after having entered the program; (iv) the women participants are having many fewer children after entry into the program than they had previously, and many fewer than they might be expected to have if their fertility is about average for married women in Taiwan. This article is devoted to a selective documentation of these points.
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