CONTEXT Social norms and stigma may play important roles in reproductive health
behavior and decision making among young women in the US South, who …

Background Norms and stigma regarding pregnancy decisions (parenting, adoption, and
abortion) are salient to maternal well-being, particularly for groups disproportionately …

Current measures of unintended pregnancy underestimate the co-occurring, complex set of
social, cultural, economic and structural factors that influence how women interpret …

Unmarried, pregnant adolescents face a variety of difficult decisions. They must decide
whether to give birth or to have an abortion, and whether to raise a child they bear or to …

Unintended pregnancy in adolescence and early adulthood is stigmatized in the United
States because it deviates from social norms that consider young people's sexuality as a …

Unintended pregnancy has conventionally been defined as a pregnancy that is mistimed or
unwanted, and this classification has been widely used in survey research. This study …

Background It is well-established that current measures of pregnancy intentions fail to
capture the complexity of couples' lived experiences and decisions regarding reproductive …

Context Racial and ethnic differences in unintended fertility are well documented, but
mechanisms underlying these differences are poorly understood. To identify the factors that …

Context Unintended pregnancy is common among black and Hispanic young adults in the
United States. How pregnancy intentions form and change is poorly understood, although …

Minority women and adolescent females of all races and ethnicities are disproportionately
affected by unintended pregnancy in the United States. Adolescents also experience an …