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Spacing, Stopping, or Postponing? Fertility Desires in a Sub-Saharan Setting.
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- Income loss and fertility intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.Revista brasileira de estudos de populacao · 2025Article
- Fertility Desires and Contraceptive Transition.Population and development review · 2024Article
- Traditional supports and contemporary disrupters of high fertility desires in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review.Reproductive health · 2023Article
- Measuring Fertility Intentions During Times of Crisis: An Example Using Survey Data Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic.Studies in family planning · 2023Article
- "I know my body and I just can't get pregnant that easily" - Women's use and non-use of the injection to manage fertility.SSM. Qualitative research in health · 2022Article
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- Current fertility desire and its associated factors among currently married eligible couples in urban and rural area of Puducherry, south India.African health sciences · 2021Article
- How Nearby Homicides Affect Young Women's Pregnancy Desires: Evidence From a Quasi-Experiment.Demography · 2021Article
- Demand for Family Planning Satisfied With Modern Methods in Urban Malawi: CHAID Analysis to Identify Predictors and Women Underserved With Family Planning Services.Frontiers in global women's health · 2021Article
- Predictors of underachieved and overachieved fertility among women with completed fertility in Ghana.PloS one · 2021Article
- The Enduring Case for Fertility Desires.Demography · 2020Article
- Pathways to Low Fertility: 50 Years of Limitation, Curtailment, and Postponement of Childbearing.Demography · 2020Article
- Rationalization, facilitators, and impediments of fertility transition in Ethiopia: qualitative exploration of the community readiness, willingness, and ability.Therapeutic advances in reproductive healthArticle
- Scars from a Previous Epidemic: Social Proximity to Zika and Fertility Intentions during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Socius : sociological research for a dynamic worldArticle
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Abstract
A growing body of research has argued that the traditional categories of stopping and spacing are insufficient to understand why individuals want to control fertility. In a series of articles, Timæus, Moultrie, and colleagues defined a third type of fertility motivation-postponement-that reflects a desire to avoid childbearing in the short term without clear goals for long-term fertility. Although postponement is fundamentally a description of fertility desires, existing quantitative research has primarily studied fertility behavior in an effort to find evidence for the model. In this study, we use longitudinal survey data to consider whether postponement can be identified in standard measures of fertility desires among reproductive-age women in rural Mozambique. Findings show strong evidence for a postponement mindset in this population, but postponement coexists with stopping and spacing goals. We reflect on the difference between birth spacing and postponement and consider whether and how postponement is a distinctive sub-Saharan phenomenon.
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