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Family Planning. Many societies have made the transition from high mortality and large family sizes to settings where most children survive, small families are desired, and most people control their fertility.
Family Planning. At the level of the family, family planning implies having only the desired number of children. Thus family planning implies both limitations of the family to a number considered appropriate to the resources of the family as well as proper spacing between the children.
- Exposure to The Risk of Pregnancy
- Occurrence of Unintended Pregnancy
- Contraceptive Use
- Contraceptive Effectiveness
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Most Americans begin to have intercourse during their late adolescence and continue to be sexually active throughout their reproductive lives. In 1995, 55 percent of all men aged 15–19 in the United States had had intercourse (Sonenstein et al. 1998). Similarly, about half of all women aged 15–19 report ever having had sex (Table 1). These data, co...
Nearly one-half of all pregnancies (49 percent) in the United States are unintended (Henshaw 1998), that is, they occur to women who want to have a baby later but not now (generally called "mistimed") or to women who did not want to have any (more) children at all (called "unwanted") (Table 2). The proportion of pregnancies that are unintended is h...
Women and men in the United States rely on a variety of contraceptive methods to plan the timing and number of children they bear and to avoid unintended pregnancies. Surgical contraceptive sterilization is available to both men and women. Oral contraceptives, Depo Provera injectibles, Norplant implants, the IUD, and female barrier methods such as ...
Pregnancies occur to couples using contraceptive methods for two reasons—because of the inadequacy of the method itself or because it was not used correctly or consistently. Estimates have been made (either theoretically or empirically during clinical trials) regarding the efficacy of each contraceptive method given perfect use (Trussell 1998). In ...
Rising public concern over the occurrence of unintended pregnancy and, particularly, of unintended, nonmarital adolescent pregnancy and childbearing in the United States has drawn attention to the manner in which young people are educated about sexuality, contraception, and how to avoid pregnancy and other negative consequences of sexual activity. ...
In the United States, women can receive contraceptive services from private practice general and family practitioners and obstetrician-gynecologists, as well as from publicly supported clinics run by hospitals, health departments, community health centers, and Planned Parenthood affiliates or independent clinic providers. In addition, some teenage ...
Women in the United States have both similarities and differences with women throughout the world in their efforts to plan the number and timing of children. In adolescence, American women are somewhat less successful in their attempts to prevent unplanned pregnancies than are young women in most other industrialized countries. Table 5 presents rec...
Abma, J. C., et al. 1997 "Fertility, Family Planning, and Women's Health: New Data from the 1995 Survey of Family Growth." Vital and Health Statistics, Series 23, No. 19, Table 1. Alan Guttmacher Institute 1994 Sex and America's Teenagers. New York: Alan Guttmacher Institute. ——1994b Uneven and Unequal: Insurance Coverage and Reproductive Health Se...
Summarize understandings of the family as presented by functional, conflict, and social interactionist theories. Sociological views on today’s families generally fall into the functional, conflict, and social interactionist approaches introduced earlier in this book.
- Bioecological Systems Theory. One of the key theories we look to help explain influences on individuals and their families is Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological systems theory.
- Family Systems Theory. When understanding the family, the Family Systems Theory has proven to be very powerful. Family Systems Theory comes under the Functional Theory umbrella and shares the functional approach of considering the dysfunctions and functions of complex groups and organizations.
- Functionalism. When considering the role of family in society, functionalists uphold the notion that families are an important social institution and that they play a key role in stabilizing society.
- Conflict Theory. Conflict theorists are quick to point out that U.S. families have been defined as private entities, the consequence of which has been to leave family matters to only those within the family.
Nov 30, 2011 · The idea of 'family practices' is now quite widely used in British family sociology. The aim of this article is to locate this reformulation by looking, firstly, at the term's place within more general discussions of practices and, secondly, to explore the implications of a more specific focus on family practices.
Feb 9, 2014 · This post covers: The Functionalist view of society. George Peter Murdock’s theory of the universal nuclear family. Talcott Parsons’ Functional Fit Theory. The possible positive functions of the family today. Evaluations and criticisms of the Functionalist view of the family from other perspectives.
