ArticleAnnals of epidemiology2013
Childhood social hardships and fertility: a prospective cohort study.
Article in Annals of epidemiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Cumulative adverse social determinants of health, prolonged unsuccessful conception, and infertility-related healthcare contact among U.S. women: NHANES 2013-2016.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2026Article
- Life Course Financial Hardship and Fecundability in a North American Preconception Cohort Study.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Fecundability in Association With Everyday and Lifetime Discrimination.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Childhood adversity and time to pregnancy in a preconception cohort.American journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Predictive models of pregnancy based on data from a preconception cohort study.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2022Article
- Child volunteers in a women's paramilitary organization in World War II have accelerated reproductive schedules.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Early life abuse and risk of endometriosis.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2018Article
- Developmental influences on fertility decisions by women: an evolutionary perspective.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Review
- Adverse childhood event experiences, fertility difficulties and menstrual cycle characteristics.Journal of psychosomatic obstetrics and gynaecology · 2015Article
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Abstract
purposeTo examine the effect of lifetime social hardships on fertility.
methodsUsing the British National Child Development Study, a longitudinal cohort study, the impact of exposure to childhood hardships on becoming pregnant, reported infertility, and time-to-pregnancy was investigated. In total, 6477 women reported on whether they had become pregnant by 41 years, and 5198 women had data on at least one pregnancy. Factor analysis was used to identify six types of childhood hardships (as reported by parent, child, social worker, or teacher); retrospective report of child abuse was also examined. Logistic regression and discrete failure-time analysis was used to adjust for potential confounders.
resultsNever-married women were more likely to have become pregnant at some point if they had experienced more childhood hardships. Retrospectively, reported child abuse was associated with an increased likelihood of having been told that one was unable to have children. Among ever-married women, childhood hardships were associated with reduced fecundability, but the association was weakened by adjustment for adult social class.
conclusionsThe relationship between childhood adversity and adult fertility is complex. Future research should investigate pathways between characteristics of adversities and fertility.
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