Premarital childbearing in Thamaga Village, Botswana

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph M. N. Pitso ◽  
Gordon A. Carmichael
Keyword(s):  
Premarital Childbearing

ADOLESCENT TRANSITION TO COITUS AND PREMARITAL CHILDBEARING IN SUDAN: A BIOSOCIAL CONTEXT

1999 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
SAMUEL C. J. OTOR ◽  
ARVIND PANDEY
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Behaviour ◽  
Conclusive Evidence ◽  
Fertility Survey ◽  
World Fertility Survey ◽  
Early Puberty ◽  
Social Controls ◽  
Adolescent Transition ◽  
Premarital Sexual ◽  
Premarital Childbearing ◽  
Biological Predisposition

This paper examines the biosocial basis of premarital sexual and reproductive behaviour among women in Sudan. It applies Udry's biosocial perspective, which attempts to reconcile the biological and sociological models of premarital sexual and reproductive behaviour. World Fertility Survey (WFS) data were used to study premarital first motherhood. Early puberty was found to be paramount in determining childbearing in a separate biological model, but also in a biosocial model constructed to take account of social controls. This finding suggests that social controls do not influence the biological predisposition to premarital sexual behaviour. However, given the limitations of the WFS data, conclusive evidence must await a more appropriately designed study of reproductive behaviour in Sudan.

Premarital Childbearing Decision Making

1985 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 561
Author(s):  
Deborah Oakley
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Premarital Childbearing
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