Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bailey, Wilma
• Wynter, Hugh
• Lee, Amy

Titel

Women in search of stability

Ist Teil von

• Social science & medicine (1982), 1988, Vol.26 (6), p.619-623

Ort / Verlag

England: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

1988

Quelle

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This paper is based on a study of 97 recruits—50 sterilized and 47 non-sterilized—to a family planning programme in Kingston, Jamaica and tries to account for the reluctance of Jamaican women to accept contraceptive sterilization. The study demonstrates the association between mating patterns in the island and the acceptance of sterilization. This irreversible method was more likely to be chosen by women in more stable sexual unions.