Birth planning of youth: Concern about overpopulation and intention to limit family size.

Edward H. Fischer

doi:10.1037/h0033551

Differential paternity in Libya

Journal of Biosocial Science ◽

10.1017/s0021932000017053 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

pp. 395-403 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mahjoub A. El-Faedy ◽

Lee L. Bean

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

Family Size ◽

Natural Fertility ◽

High Fertility ◽

Occupational Groups ◽

American Frontier ◽

Fertility Limitation ◽

Limit Family Size ◽

Very High

SummaryLibya is one of the Middle East nations with very high fertility, and data from 1973 suggest the presence of a natural fertility regime marked by the absence of fertility limitation within marriage. Analysis of paternity data by occupation, however, identifies major differences in the level and pattern of childbearing. The Libyan data are compared with fertility and paternity data from an American frontier population to demonstrate that the general patterns observed are consistent with other natural fertility populations, while selected occupational groups may limit family size.

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Is There a Moral Obligation to Limit Family Size?

Philosophy & Public Policy Quarterly ◽

10.13021/g8pppq.292009.108 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 29 (3/4) ◽

pp. 26

Author(s):

Scott Wisor

Keyword(s):

Family Size ◽

Moral Obligation ◽

Limit Family Size

Although we have an important obligation to protect the environment, people are not morally required to choose to have smaller families for environmental reasons.

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DESIRED FAMILY SIZE, FAMILY PLANNING AND FERTILITY IN ETHIOPIA

Journal of Biosocial Science ◽

10.1017/s0021932006001593 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 367-381 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

ALOK BHARGAVA

Keyword(s):

Family Size ◽

Health Care Services ◽

Maternal Education ◽

Logistic Models ◽

Number Of Children ◽

Care Services ◽

Small Family Size ◽

Dichotomous Variables ◽

Desired Family Size ◽

Limit Family Size

Summary.This paper models the proximate determinants of children born to over 13,000 Ethiopian women and of the women’s stated preferences for additional births using the data from the Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey 2000. Empirical models for the number of children born to women were estimated using Poisson and ordinal regressions. The results show the importance of variables such as maternal education for smaller family size, and that variables reflecting desired family size are strong predictors of the numbers of children born to women. Secondly, binary logistic models for dichotomous variables for women not wanting more children and if getting pregnant would be a ‘big problem’ showed non-linear effects of the surviving and ‘ideal’ number of children. Moreover, the results indicated a desire on the part of women to limit family size, especially as the number of surviving children increased. Probit models were estimated to address potential endogeneity of certain variables. Overall, the results indicated that counselling couples about small family size and increasing the utilization of health care services can lower fertility in Ethiopia.

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Childhood Memories and Contemporary Parenting in Ekiti, Nigeria

Africa ◽

10.3366/afr.2005.75.1.63 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 75 (1) ◽

pp. 63-82 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Elisha P. Renne

Keyword(s):

Life History ◽

Family Size ◽

Childhood Memories ◽

Number Of Children ◽

Young Parents ◽

Child Fostering ◽

Early Colonial ◽

History Of ◽

British Colonial ◽

Limit Family Size

AbstractThe practice of pawning children, whose labour served as interest paid on loans, was common in precolonial and early colonial Ekiti Yoruba society. Known as , these children would work for the lender until their kinsmen had repaid the debts they had incurred. British colonial officials came to view this practice as a form of slavery and eventually outlawed it. This paper considers the life history of one older man who worked as an in a small Ekiti Yoruba town, focusing on his memories of child-pawning and how this practice has been interpreted by his children. The paper then examines the process whereby people's changed thinking about the moral bases of pawning parallels contemporary reassessments of the practice of child-fostering by young parents, some of whom claim that it is ‘like slavery’. How subsequent generations of townspeople remember slavery, child-pawning and, more recently, child-fostering, have implications for reproduction, since what it means to have the number of children who can be ‘raised well’ may contribute to social and economic pressures to limit family size. This study of memories of pawning and child-fostering, which support reduced fertility, underscores the ways that distinctive historical experiences have had different consequences for how reproduction is perceived and practised.

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Does child survival limit family size?

Nature ◽

10.1038/542414a ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 542 (7642) ◽

pp. 414-414

Author(s):

Malcolm Potts ◽

Alisha Graves ◽

Duff Gillespie

Keyword(s):

Family Size ◽

Child Survival ◽

Limit Family Size

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Abortion experience among obstetric patients at Korle-Bu Hospital, Accra, Ghana

Journal of Biosocial Science ◽

10.1017/s0021932000015649 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 195-203 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Peter Lamptey ◽

Barbara Janowitz ◽

Jason B. Smith ◽

Cecil Klufio

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Family Planning ◽

Family Size ◽

Young Women ◽

Induced Abortion ◽

First Birth ◽

Family Planning Services ◽

Previous Pregnancy ◽

Limit Family Size

SummaryAmong obstetric patients with at least one previous pregnancy, over 20% reported having at least one induced abortion. Abortion experience was more common among women at lower gravidities and among women with the highest levels of education, suggesting that abortion is most used to delay the first birth, particularly for young women still at school. This is in contrast to the situation in Latin America where abortion is used most often to limit family size.The proportion of women who reported that they used contraception prior to the pregnancy was low, suggesting that knowledge of attitudes towards and availability of family planning services needs to be improved.

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