This article provides a critical review of studies assessing the effects of unintended
pregnancy on the health of infants, children, and parents in developed and developing …

Prominent racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in rates of unintended pregnancy,
abortion, and unintended births exist in the United States. These disparities can contribute to …

Approximately half of pregnancies occurring each year in the United States are unintended:
They either occurred too soon or were not intended at any time. 1 This commonly cited …

The premise that unintended childbearing has significant negative effects on the behavior of
mothers and on the health of infants strongly influences public health policy and much of …

Fertility rates vary considerably across and within societies, and over time. Over the last
three decades, social demographers have made remarkable progress in documenting these …

We contribute to feminist and gender scholarship on cultural notions of motherhood by
analyzing the importance of motherhood among mothers and non-mothers. Using a national …

Widely used dichotomous categorical measures of pregnancy intentions do not represent
well the complexity of factors involved in women's intentions. We used a variety of …

Women of lower socioeconomic status and women of color in the United States have higher
rates of abortion than women of higher socioeconomic status and White women. Opponents …

Objectives Ineffective and inconsistent contraceptive use is common among adults, perhaps
due to limited knowledge about reproduction and unfavorable attitudes toward …

There is a general consensus among most people in the United States that teen
childbearing is problematic. The vast majority of teen births are unintended6, 13 and …