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Here are six astounding facts about pregnancy that we learned from Child. In this new look at the beginnings of life we tell the story of a child from fertilisation to first birthday through the ...
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- Introduction
- Pregnancy Desires and Intentions: The TDIB Framework
- Potential Race Differences in Desire For Pregnancy
- The Dynamics of Pregnancy Desire
- Data and Methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Limitations of The RDSL Sample
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
According to nationally representative survey data, Black-White disparities in unintended pregnancy in the United States are large. Black women retrospectively report that 64% of their pregnancies are unintended; the corresponding percentage for White women is only 38% (Finer and Zolna 2016). The unintended pregnancy rate is nearly 2.5 times higher...
Our conceptualization of pregnancy desires and plans is based on the Traits-Desires-Intentions-Behavior (TDIB) framework (Miller 1994). The TDIB framework incorporates elements of long-standing theories of childbearing behavior, including demographic demand-for-children models (e.g., Bulatao and Lee 1983), microeconomic models of fertility (e.g., B...
Our first research question examines the extent to which young Black women have more or less desire for pregnancy than their White counterparts, drawing on Arline Geronimus' influential ideas about weathering, a biopsychosocial framework for understanding early health deterioration among Black Americans due to discrimination and stress (Geronimus 1...
Finally, we also consider whether regardless of their prospectively measured preconception desire for pregnancy, Black women are more likely than White women to experience a negative shift in their feelings about pregnancy after they conceive. There are at least two reasons this may be the case: the material conditions in which young Black women ex...
Study Design
The Relationship Dynamics and Social Life (RDSL) study was based on a simple random sample of the population of young women, ages 18–19, residing in Genesee County, Michigan. The sample of 1,003 young women was drawn from driver's license and personal ID card records. A 60-minute face-to-face baseline survey interview was conducted between March 2008 and July 2009 to assess sociodemographic characteristics, family background, attitudes, and early experiences related to sex and reproductive he...
Desire for Pregnancy and Desire to Avoid Pregnancy
Table 2shows comparisons for the survey measures of pregnancy desires. Overall, pregnancy desire was low; women expressed any desire for pregnancy in only 7% of their weekly interviews. However, more than one-third (37%) of women expressed some nonzero desire for pregnancy during at least one of their weekly interviews. Among this group of women who ever had any pregnancy desire, when they expressed such desire, its strength was moderate; the mean across these women in their nonzero weeks was...
Ambivalence and Indifference
Table 2 also shows that women's desire for pregnancy and desire to avoid pregnancy tend to align. Women reported zero desire for pregnancy and the strongest desire to avoid pregnancy (strong antinatal) in the vast majority (91%) of their weekly interviews. Moderate antinatal desire was the next most common combination but occurred in only 3.2% of interviews. Pronatal desire—strong desire for pregnancy and correspondingly weak desire to avoid pregnancy—was reported in 2.4% of interviews. Overa...
Planning
Black and White women similarly described their plans for future pregnancies. The most common plan, for both groups, was to stop childbearing altogether or to have a long delay. For example, “If I decide to get off (injectable contraception), I'll be getting my tubes tied” (Black woman), or “After I have this baby, I am going to get my tubes tied” (White woman). Another common plan was for a specific age gap between children. For example, “I think I will have about three or four. Not back-to-...
Although our results could be interpreted as consistent with the idea that weathering or instability leads Black women to want pregnancy more than White women at these young ages, the race differences in our analyses are not particularly strong, because the overwhelming majority of both Black and White young women wanted to avoid or delay pregnancy...
The RDSL sample has important limitations. The RDSL had a narrow geographic focus (a single county in Michigan), and the sample was not nationally representative; however, Michigan falls around the national median in measures of cohabitation, marriage, age at first birth, completed family size, nonmarital childbearing, and teenage childbearing (see...
If undesired births occur among women who cannot or do not want to plan their pregnancies, then imposing a “planning paradigm” on all women could be inappropriate (Aiken et al. 2016). However, the vast majority of young women in our analyses were quite specific and consistent about their future childbearing desires and plans. Although Bachrach and ...
This research was supported by Grants R03 HD077051 and R01 HD078412 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) as well as NICHD grants to the University of Michigan's Population Studies Center (R24 HD041028), Ohio State University's Institute for Population Research (P2C-HD058484), and Bowling G...
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Journalist Rose Stokes is pregnant with her first child and has been inundated with horror stories of birth and parenting from friends, family and strangers. She spoke to BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s ...
