Childspacing Intervals and Abortion Among Blacks and Whites
作者:
RussoNancyFelipe,
HornJodyD.,
TrompShannon,
期刊:
Women&Health
(Taylor Available online 1993)
卷期:
Volume 20,
issue 3
页码: 43-51
ISSN:0363-0242
年代: 1993
DOI:10.1300/J013v20n03_03
出版商: Taylor&Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Although physical, psychological, and social problems for children born to women denied abortion have been identified, little attention has been paid to the role that close childspacing might play in contributing to those problems. Small childspacing intervals (less than two years) have been linked to numerous physical, psychological, and social problems for mother and child. Using secondary analysis, this study examines the characteristics of 596 mothers who sought abortions in 1987 by race and age. Nearly 25% of these mothers had at least one child under two years of age. Abortion patients with such young children were more likely to be Black and have low incomes than abortion patients with older children. More than half of the mothers studied had more than two children. The findings suggest that a substantial number of children born to women denied access to abortion would be closely spaced, with the resulting adverse health consequences falling more heavily on subpopulations of abortion patients already at higher risk for negative perinatal and neonatal outcomes.
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