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Book The Best Intentions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Committee on Unintended Pregnancy
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 1995-06-16
  • ISBN : 0309556376
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book The Best Intentions written by Committee on Unintended Pregnancy and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-06-16 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts estimate that nearly 60 percent of all U.S. pregnancies--and 81 percent of pregnancies among adolescents--are unintended. Yet the topic of preventing these unintended pregnancies has long been treated gingerly because of personal sensitivities and public controversies, especially the angry debate over abortion. Additionally, child welfare advocates long have overlooked the connection between pregnancy planning and the improved well-being of families and communities that results when children are wanted. Now, current issues--health care and welfare reform, and the new international focus on population--are drawing attention to the consequences of unintended pregnancy. In this climate The Best Intentions offers a timely exploration of family planning issues from a distinguished panel of experts. This committee sheds much-needed light on the questions and controversies surrounding unintended pregnancy. The book offers specific recommendations to put the United States on par with other developed nations in terms of contraceptive attitudes and policies, and it considers the effectiveness of over 20 pregnancy prevention programs. The Best Intentions explores problematic definitions--"unintended" versus "unwanted" versus "mistimed"--and presents data on pregnancy rates and trends. The book also summarizes the health and social consequences of unintended pregnancies, for both men and women, and for the children they bear. Why does unintended pregnancy occur? In discussions of "reasons behind the rates," the book examines Americans' ambivalence about sexuality and the many other social, cultural, religious, and economic factors that affect our approach to contraception. The committee explores the complicated web of peer pressure, life aspirations, and notions of romance that shape an individual's decisions about sex, contraception, and pregnancy. And the book looks at such practical issues as the attitudes of doctors toward birth control and the place of contraception in both health insurance and "managed care." The Best Intentions offers frank discussion, synthesis of data, and policy recommendations on one of today's most sensitive social topics. This book will be important to policymakers, health and social service personnel, foundation executives, opinion leaders, researchers, and concerned individuals. May

Book Dissertation Abstracts International

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-08 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.

Book Doctoral Dissertations on Thailand  July 1958 June 1979

Download or read book Doctoral Dissertations on Thailand July 1958 June 1979 written by Wannaporn Wichienwongsa and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Doctoral Dissertations on Asia

Download or read book Doctoral Dissertations on Asia written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Abortion and Family Planning Bibliography for

Download or read book Abortion and Family Planning Bibliography for written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book United States Doctoral Dissertations in Third World Studies  1869 1978

Download or read book United States Doctoral Dissertations in Third World Studies 1869 1978 written by Michael Sims and published by [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Crossroads Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women in Southeast Asia

Download or read book Women in Southeast Asia written by Kok-sim Fan and published by Hall Reference Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Union Catalog

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Book American Doctoral Dissertations

Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Act of Marriage

Download or read book The Act of Marriage written by Tim LaHaye and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book for married couples, from newlyweds to those married for fifty years or more, advice on how to maintain a healthy sex life.

Book Mental Health

Download or read book Mental Health written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Southeast Asia

Download or read book Southeast Asia written by University Microfilms International and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journalism Abstracts

Download or read book Journalism Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ethics of Social Intervention

Download or read book The Ethics of Social Intervention written by Gordon Bermant and published by Hemisphere Pub. This book was released on 1978 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sacred Rights

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel C. Maguire
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2003-04-03
  • ISBN : 0195347811
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Sacred Rights written by Daniel C. Maguire and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the work of the "Sacred Choices Initiative" of the Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health, and Ethics. The purpose of this Packard and Ford Foundation supported initiative is to attempt to change international discourse on family planning and to rescue this debate from superficial sloganeering by drawing on the moral stores of the world's major and indigenous religions. In many of the world's religions there is a restrictive and pro-natalist view on family planning, and this is one legitimate reading of those religious traditions. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, however, this is not the only legitimate or orthodox view. These authors show that the paramaters of orthodoxy are wider and gentler than that, and that the great religious traditions are wiser and more variegated and nuanced than a simple repetition of the most conservative views would suggest. This theme is carried out in essays on each of the world's major religious traditions, written by scholar practitioners of those faiths.