Despite the centrality of religion and fertility to life in rural Africa, the relationship between the two remains … the particular characteristics of a congregation—leader’s positive attitudes toward family planning and discussion of …

Guatemala is characterized by low contraceptive use rates and one of the highest fertility rates in the Western … identification of the segments of the Guatemalan population at most need for contraceptive and family planning services. Using the …

practices and the lack of progress in lengthening birth intervals. Meanwhile, family planning efforts have been particularly … successful in the southern states such as Andhra Pradesh, although family limitation is almost exclusively by means of … delaying and spacing of births. The effects of adopting a ‘later, longer and fewer’ family planning strategy are compared …

The interconnections of family transformation, childrearing and fertility behaviour are explored. Data were generated … through nine focus groups organized among the Ogu and content analyzed. The analysis reveals that although the family system … family size and ideal number of children in the society now gravitate to four children relative to over eight in the past …

policy is considered to be a failure in terms of its influence on fertility. German family policy has had a traditional …Germany is a low-fertility country with a rapidly ageing population, and will remain so for the foreseeable future … forms the basis for widespread decisions against family formation. The desired number of children has become low and family …

Following the swift demise of the state-socialist regime in 1989, a profound transformation of family and fertility … patterns has taken place in the Czech Republic. Family formation has been postponed and period fertility rates have fallen to … been progressively delayed or even foregone. These rapid shifts in family-related behaviour were primarily driven by a …

of fertility common in Western countries. Central among factors shaping the latter behaviour (job insecurity, unstable … performing most household maintenance and childrearing duties. Two theories prevailed to explain what caused changes in family … formation and fertility trends. One argues that the economic and social crises were the principal causes. The other considered …