For many years, most of us in the Society of Family Planning and the wider reproductive
health community have relied on the number of unintended pregnancies as a justification for …

Fertility preferences have long played a key role in models of fertility differentials and
change. We examine the stability of preferences over time using rich panel data on Kenyan …

Potter and colleagues are right: the retrospective, population-level measure of unintended
pregnancy—typically presented as a rate among women of reproductive age or as a …

CONTEXT Measurement of pregnancy intentions typically relies on retrospective reporting,
an approach that may misrepresent the extent of unintended pregnancy. However, the …

Objective Research points to disparities in disease burden and access to medical care in
epilepsy. We studied the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and antiseizure …

Wealth, a significant dimension of inequality that captures both financial security and social
position, shapes patterns of family formation. This study evaluates the role of wealth in the …

The realisation rates of short-term childbearing intentions are known to be consistently lower
in post-socialist countries than in the rest of Europe. However, the East–West differences in …

This article explores race differences in the desire to avoid pregnancy or become pregnant
using survey data from a random sample of 914 young women (ages 18–22) living in a …

Background Unplanned pregnancy is associated with adverse consequences for women.
Yet, these associations are typically based on women's reports of pregnancy planning …

Immigrant fertility and the realization of fertility intentions are two topics of considerable
interest in contemporary demographic research. Yet very few studies have explored the …