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Parents and Family Planning Services, Paperback / softback Book

Parents and Family Planning Services Paperback / softback

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Parents and Family Planning Services focuses on parents of a sample of newborns in twelve areas of England and Wales during the 1970s.

The parents were asked about their contraceptive practices, attitudes toward different methods of birth control, and opinions of-and experience with-different types of services.

General practitioners, health visitors, and doctors at family planning clinics were interviewed about their views and practices.

This juxtaposition of the attitudes of parents and professionals highlights the reasons why people do not use effective methods of birth control, and leads to suggestions as to how they could be helped to do so.

Several chapters discuss fathers' attitudes and actions, the views of parents and professionals, and the influence of religion, social class, education, and geographic location.

The final chapter is concerned with possible changes in contraceptive habits, and the ways in which services can develop to help more women avoid unwanted pregnancies.

The work has ongoing policy implications, and also indicates how attitudes and change evolve over time.

Parents and Family Planning Services is predicated on the assumption that unwanted fertility is to be avoided.

It underscores the need for a proliferation of different sorts of services: more clinics, an increase in the help and advice given at hospitals, the development of a supportive and integrated home service.

This volume is a significant contribution to the literature in this vital field.

It remains essential reading for both professionals and concerned policy personnel, particularly those interested in the evolution of policy and practice.

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