{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Church AC"],"funding":["Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation","Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation"],"pagination":["86"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC10242605"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["20(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Rationale</h4>The desired number of children is markedly higher in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) than in other major regions. Efforts to understand how and why these desires are generated and maintained have yielded a broad research literature. Yet there is no full picture of the range of contextual, cultural, and economic factors that support and disrupt high fertility desires.<h4>Objective</h4>This scoping review synthesizes thirty years of research on the determinants of fertility desires in SSA to better understand what factors underlie men and women's stated fertility desires and how they weigh the costs and benefits of having (more) children.<h4>Method</h4>We identified and screened 9863 studies published from 1990 to 2021 from 18 social science, demographic, and health databases. We "],"journal":["Reproductive health"],"pubmed_title":["Traditional supports and contemporary disrupters of high fertility desires in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review."],"pmcid":["PMC10242605"],"funding_grant_id":["INV-007809"],"pubmed_authors":["Casterline JB","Chettri S","Church AC","Ibitoye M"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Traditional supports and contemporary disrupters of high fertility desires in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review.","description":"<h4>Rationale</h4>The desired number of children is markedly higher in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) than in other major regions. Efforts to understand how and why these desires are generated and maintained have yielded a broad research literature. Yet there is no full picture of the range of contextual, cultural, and economic factors that support and disrupt high fertility desires.<h4>Objective</h4>This scoping review synthesizes thirty years of research on the determinants of fertility desires in SSA to better understand what factors underlie men and women's stated fertility desires and how they weigh the costs and benefits of having (more) children.<h4>Method</h4>We identified and screened 9863 studies published from 1990 to 2021 from 18 social science, demographic, and health databases. We ","dates":{"release":"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2023 Jun","modification":"2025-04-19T07:23:25.72Z","creation":"2025-04-19T07:23:25.72Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC10242605","cross_references":{"pubmed":["37280648"],"doi":["10.1186/s12978-023-01627-7"]}}