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 develo** …

CONTEXT: Unintended pregnancies account for about half of all pregnancies in the United
States and, in 1995, numbered nearly 3 million pregnancies. They pose appreciable …

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 …

Public discourse in Britain sees teenage motherhood as a pernicious social problem where
mothers, their children and society generally will all suffer. Fathers are seen as feckless. This …

The terms “planned”,“unplanned”,“intended”,“unintended”,“wanted” and “unwanted” are
often used in relation to pregnancy in health policy, health services and health research …

Objective. To assess the relationship between unintended pregnancy resulting in a live birth
and binge drinking (having 5 or more alcoholic beverages on 1 occasion) in the 3 months …

An unresolved paradox in the measurement and interpretation of unintended pregnancy is
that women frequently report feeling happy about pregnancies they also classify as …

Methods: Data from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) were used to
compare levels of unintended pregnancy among contraceptive users based on two …

CONTEXT: Mistimed and unwanted pregnancies that result in live births are commonly
considered together as unintended pregnancies, but they may have different precursors and …

Background: Although interest in the intendedness or the planning status of a pregnancy
goes back many centuries, it is only since 1941 that questions about these issues have been …