Abstract
This chapter examines the link between the survival status of previous children and the decision to contracept. Women who have lost a child or children may be expected to have greater motivation to have another child, and hence be less likely to practice contraception than women whose children are all surviving. More recent losses may be associated with lower levels of interval contraception, as they are less likely to have been ‘replaced’ by a subsequent birth.
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Janowitz, B., Nichols, D.J. (1983). Infant and child survival and contraceptive use in the closed pregnancy interval. In: Potts, M., Janowitz, B., Fortney, J.A. (eds) Childbirth in Developing Countries. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7265-3_8
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