Family Planning Perspectives articles from September 1997

Family Planning Perspectives archives from September 1997

Adolescent pregnancy and sexual risk-taking aming abused girls.
September 1, 1997... As sexual abuse of female children and adolescent pregnancy have gained increasingly widespread public recognition as problems in our society, the relationship between early abuse and teenage pregnancy also has become a focus of attention....

Sexual abuse history and number of sex partners among female adolescents.
September 1, 1997... Child sexual abuse has been linked with a range of problem outcomes during childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Adults who were victims of child sexual abuse often fear sex, distrust their sex partners, have decreased sexual drive and have...

Sexual initiation with older male partners and subsequent HIV risk behavior among female adolescents.
September 1, 1997... Each year, approximately three million American teenagers acquire a sexually transmitted disease (STD). Adolescents and young adults are at great risk for acquiring STDs, including HIV, because they may be more likely than older people to engage...

The consistency of self-reported initiation of sexual activity.
September 1, 1997... While many studies continue to explore the demographic and public health implications of increased sexual activity among American adolescents, a surprisingly small portion of this research has focused on the accuracy of the data used to measure...

Training family practice residents in abortion and other reproductive health care: a nationwide survey.
September 1, 1997... As primary caregivers to women and men throughout the country, family practice physicians must address a full spectrum of reproductive health care needs, including family planning. The need for family planning services is vast: In 1992, 77% of...

Women's reproductive choices: the impact of medicaid funding restrictions.
September 1, 1997... In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that a right of personal privacy exists under the Constitution and that this right includes a woman's decision of whether or not to terminate a pregnancy. However, the Court also ruled that the...

Attitudes of general practitioners in Northern Ireland toward abortion and family planning.
September 1, 1997... Since the 1967 Abortion Act went into effect in the United Kingdom in April 1968, women from countries that restrict the procedure have traveled to England to obtain a legal abortion. U.S. women were among the first foreign patients (before a...

Swiss program improves condom use, but levels of other HIV risk-related behavior are unchanged.
September 1, 1997... A Swiss national AIDS prevention program has prompted significant increases in condom use, according to an ongoing evaluation) Between the late 1980s and mid-1990s, levels of consistent condom use during casual sexual encounters rose from 8% to...

Adult partners of teenage mothers frequently have an inadequate education.
September 1, 1997... One-half of babies born to California women aged 14-17 in 1993 were fathered by men aged 20 or older, according to an analysis of birth certificate data.[1] The odds that an infant had an adult rather than a teenage father were highest if the...

Nurse-midwives attending healthy women's deliveries use fewer interventions than physicians.
September 1, 1997... Healthy women with a low risk of obstetric complications whose deliveries are attended by certified nurse-midwives have fewer medical or technological interventions during labor and have a lower cesarean section rate than those whose births are...

Children from disrupted families begin having sex, and children, at early stage.
September 1, 1997... Young men and women who experienced parental divorce during childhood are likely to enter their first marriage or cohabiting relationship at an earlier age than their peers from intact families. They are also likely to have their first birth,...

Pill use makes minimal contribution to the risk of myocardial infarction.
September 1, 1997... Acute myocardial infarction is a rare occurrence in users of combined oral contraceptives who have no other risk factors for cardiovascular disease, but smokers and those with a history of hypertension have a substantially elevated risk of this...

Women who were born to teenage mothers have nearly double the risk of early child bearing.
September 1, 1997... Daughters of teenage mothers are at greater risk than other women of giving birth while in their teens and early 20s, according to an analysis of nationally representative British data.[1] Family, school and individual characteristics contribute...