Background & aim: The severe reduced fertility rate and growing increase of older population in Iran have led to economic and social consequences in the country. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the fertility motivations and some of its related factors in women of reproductive age referring to urban health centers. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on 450 ...

0191-8869/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.paid.2010.05.018 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 954 829 6625. E-mail address: [email protected] (J.A. Eas Beginning in their late twenties, women face the unique adaptive problem of declining fertility eventually terminating at menopause. We hypothesize women have evolved a reproduction expediting psychological adaptation ...

CONTEXT Use of unmet need for family planning to identify prospective clients may misrepresent the actual family planning needs of a population, given that a large proportion of women have ambivalent fertility desires. METHODS Survey data for 1998 and 2003 from Burkina Faso, Ghana and Kenya were used to examine the fertility desires and motivations of women who said they wanted to delay or li...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have demonstrated that it is common for women to report inconsistent fertility motivations and family planning behaviors. This study examines these inconsistencies among urban Honduran women interviewed at two points in time and presents reasons for inconsistent fertility motivations and contraceptive behaviors at follow-up. METHODS Data come from a one-year panel st...

Male fertility has been largely neglected in demographic research (Coleman, 2000; Greene and Biddlecom, 2000; Zhang, 2011). Although the role of men in fertility decisions and changes has received increased attention since 1990s (DeRose, and Ezeh, 2005; Greene and Biddlecom, 2000; Zulu, 1997), the patterns, levels, changes and determinants of male fertility have remained an understudied researc...

A commonplace observation in humans is that close genetic relatives tend to avoid one another as sexual partners. Despite the growing psychological research on how antierotic attitudes develop toward relatives, few studies have focused on actual behavior. One prediction, stemming from parental investment theory, is that women should be more vigilant of reproduction-compromising behaviors, such ...

Background & aim: Considering the lack of information regarding the effects of religion on young couples’ fertility preferences, this study aimed to evaluate the relationship between religious beliefs and fertility preferences among engaged couples in Mashhad, Iran, in 2013. Methods:This cross-sectional study was conducted on 450 engaged couples, referring to premarital counseling clinics at h...