Black-White Differences in Pregnancy Desire During the Transition to Adulthood.

ABSTRACT: This article explores race differences in the desire to avoid pregnancy or become pregnant using survey data from a random sample of 914 young women (ages 18-22) living in a Michigan county and semi-structured interviews with a subsample of 60 of the women. In the survey data, desire for pregnancy, indifference, and ambivalence are very rare but are more prevalent among Black women than White women. In the semi-structured interviews, although few women described fatalistic beliefs or lack of planning for future pregnancies, Black and White women did so equally often. Women more often described fatalistic beliefs and lack of planning when retrospectively describing their past than when prospectively describing their future. Using the survey data to compare prospective desires for a future p

SUBMITTER: Barber JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8167887 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature