Search Results for Unwanted childbearing

... of unwantedness of the child in 1962. Being an unwanted child in the first year of life has enduring negative effects on self- esteem independent of the mother's subsequent evaluations. We hypothesized that being born too early may also af- fect self-esteem. We examine this hypothesis by simulta- neously...

...-Saharan African regions appear to be still progressing through the first phase of increase, the other three regions have passed that phase by the start of the analysis period. Throughout the decades examined here, unwantedness as a birth-cohort attribute is significantly higher in Latin America and lower...

... con- siderable attention in the country-by-country release of DHS ndings. A large literature examines the consequences of unwantedness, and this literature will not be reviewed here. We do acknowledge, however, that the nature and magnitude of the effects of unwanted fertility is a subject...

... an extra effort to care for children who are of the desired parity and gender. In this analysis, I aim to separate differential mortality from unwantedness as clearly as possible from mortality differences that may have other causes. Additionally, I aim to separate how infant survival depends...

... one unintended birth. Our results are also useful in understanding the dynamics of fertility and family formation in the United States. Early research on unintended fertility focused on unwanted births late in the childbearing career. As delayed marriage and childbearing have become more common...

....] Pratt, W. F., and M. C. Hom. 1985. Wanted and unwanted childbearing, United States, 1973–1982. Advance Data From Vital and Health Statistics, No. 108. [DHHS Pub. No. 85-1250.] Shelton , J. D. ( 1976 ). Abortion utilization: Does travel distance matter? . Family Planning Perspectives , 8...

... women who report not wanting more children could have social privileges in acquiring medical services, abortion, and contraceptives; and if these women avoid births, the remaining unwanted births would appear less healthy. We find (1) no overall effect of unwantedness on child survival in rural...

... question about fertility has been how to control unwanted childbearing, so that infertility problems have been overshadowed. Second, there is a compositional explanation: among the smaller group of women who would like to have children now, a higher proportion may indeed have infertility problems. Third...

... of unintended pregnancy among women in Nairobi, Kenya . BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth , 13 , 69 10.1186/1471-2393-13-69 Jensen E. R. , & Ahlburg D. A. ( 1999 ). A multicountry analysis of the impact of unwantedness and number of children on child health and preventive and curative...

.... , & Thornton A. ( 1999 ). The influence of unwanted childbearing on mother-child relationships . Journal of Health and Social Behavior , 40 , 231 – 257 . 10.2307/2676350 Barber, J., Cooksey, E., Young-DeMarco, L., & Hurst, S. (2003). Unintended childbearing and children’s cognitive ability...

.... , & Trent , K. ( 1987 ). Sociodemographic Determinants of Abortion in the United States . Demography , 24 , 553 – 561 . 10.2307/2061391 Pratt , W. F. , & Horn , M. C. ( 1985 ). Wanted and Unwanted Childbearing: United States, 1973–82 . Hyattsville, MD : Public Health...

... Women in Their 20s . Family Planning Perspectives , 17 , 10 – 19 . 10.2307/2135217 Williams, L.B. and W.F. Pratt. 1990. “Wanted and Unwanted Childbearing in the United States: 1973–1988.” Advance Data from Vital and Health Statistics 189. Demography, Vol. 31, No.4, November 1994...

... of fertility preferences among Ghanaian women . Demographic Research , 22 , 965 – 984 . 10.4054/DemRes.2010.22.30 Koenig , M. A. , Acharya , R. , Singh , S. , & Roy , T. K. ( 2006 ). Do current measurement approaches underestimate levels of unwanted childbearing? Evidence from...

... the impact of childbearing intentions on maternal behaviors and infant health, and may be partly responsible for the mixed findings of prior studies. The three-category measure of pregnancy intentions—with the unintended group divided into wanted but mistimed pregnancies (hereafter, “mistimed”) and unwanted...

... in Table 4. On this basis we reject the hypothesis that the sister pairs are a random sample of the broader NLSY sample. 5 Birth wantedness may be regarded as a continuum, and also may translate into a continuum of marriage market behavior. To address this issue, we break down the concept of unwantedness...

.... , & Roy T. K. ( 2006 ). Do current measurement approaches underestimate levels of unwanted childbearing? Evidence from rural India . Population Studies , 60 , 243 – 256 . Kusunoki Y. , & Upchurch D. M. ( 2011 ). Contraceptive method choice among youth in the United States...

... probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) using the propensity score to estimate causal treatment effects in observational studies . Statistics in Medicine , 34 , 3661 – 3679 . Barber J. S. , Axinn W. G. , & Thornton A. ( 1999 ). Unwanted childbearing, health, and mother-child...

... using retrospective reports of unwantedness for India are quite close, particularly for the last time period ( N = 20; 2.68 and 2.58, respectively). Tables S1 and S2 (Online Resource 1 ) show the full detail: estimates and parameters for all states for each time period. In Fig.  1 , we compare...

... factors related to pregnancy and childbearing. At least one study has found that a high-fatality disaster decreased women's contraceptive access and correspondingly increased unwanted pregnancy rates ( Behrman and Weitzman 2016 ), and several others have found that disasters and terrorist attacks have...

...: Attitudes toward childbearing and competing alternatives . Social Psychology Quarterly , 64 , 101 – 127 . 10.2307/3090128 Barber , J. S. , Axinn , W. G. , & Thornton , A. ( 1999 ). Unwanted childbearing, health, and mother-child relationships . Journal of Health and Social...