Map of countries by fertility rate: India's fertility rate is lower than some countries in its neighborhood, but significantly higher than China and Iran Family planning in India is based on efforts largely sponsored by the Indian government. In the 1965-2009 period, contraceptive usage has more than tripled (from 13% of married women in 1970 to 48% in 2009) and the fertility rate has more than...

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. T...

Prominent racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in rates of unintended pregnancy, abortion, and unintended births exist in the United States. These disparities can contribute to the cycle of disadvantage experienced by specific demographic groups when women are unable to control their fertility as desired. In this review we consider 3 factors that contribute to disparities in family plann...

This fact sheet explores attitudes in Sweden toward sexuality and childbirth from a historical perspective. After describing the strict social control over abortion and contraception in place 100 years ago, and the gradual easing of those controls in response to the low birth rate, the paper goes on to discuss the 1974 Abortion Act, which legalized abortions, and the 1976 Sterilization Act. Nex...

CONTENTS Family planning as a critical component of sustainable global development Babatunde Osotimehin 1 Meeting demand for family planning within a generation: prospects and implications at country level Trends in contraceptive use and distribution of births with demographic risk factors in Ethiopia: a sub-national analysis Potential confounding in the association between short birth interval...

Why is it that couples who have a son or whose last child is a son earn higher conditional income? To solve this curious case we tell a detective story: evidence of a phenomenon to be explained, a parade of suspects, a process of elimination from the enquiry, and then the denouement. Given the draconian family planning policy and a common perception that there is strong son preference in rural ...

First, the anthropological and demographic literature on fertility in Africa shows that the desire for a family factors heavily in young women's contraceptive choices.2,3 Our own work in Kenya and Malawi provides robust evidence that sexually active young adults use contraception to plan their families.4,5 Furthermore, many young people avoid modern contraceptive methods because they fear it wi...

The aim of this study was to identify the care provided by health professionals who work in family planning, in a Family Health Unit in the municipality of Ribeirao Preto, São Paulo. This was a descriptive, cross-sectional and qualitative-quantitative study. Data were collected through interviews with 11 health professionals. The results revealed that most professionals had not received trainin...