I argue that, insofar as we endorse the general idea that desires play an important role in well-being, ought to believe their significance for well-being is derived from a pair of more fundamental attitudes: attraction and aversion. Attraction has wholly positive aversion negative well-being. Desire satisfaction frustration have relevant involve some combination defend these claims by illustra...

BACKGROUND Rates of pregnancy among women living with HIV are similar to those in the general population. Unintended pregnancies are also common, and among adolescents and young women perinatally infected (PHIV+) or behaviorally infected (BHIV+) with HIV, planning for both conception and contraception is an important element of HIV care that may be neglected. This pilot study examined the influ...

Bangladesh, one of the world’s poorest countries, has experienced a dramatic decline in fertility since 1985, with total rate from 5.5–2.1. International researchers have debated reasons for this rapid decline, some studies attributing it primarily to family planning programmes and others pointing at simultaneous increase education women other socioeconomic factors. Using data seven-rounds Bang...

The paper asks how parenting desires are associated with the construction of sexual identity and what factors most influence whether gays/lesbians, bisexuals, heterosexuals declaring same-sex attraction want to have (more) children. subject has been explored mainly in Western liberal gay-family-friendly legislation social environment so far. Our study was conducted Czech Republic, a CEE country...

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...

number of a couple’s births. In some countries or among some social groups, the male partner has greater influence than his spouse.4 In Ghana, the wife’s attitude toward contraception is strongly influenced by her husband’s attitudes and background characteristics, especially education, but the husband’s views are not similarly influenced by his wife.5 On the other hand, the perception that men...