Whether, and under what circumstances, people become parents has implications for
individual identity, family relationships, the well‐being of adults and children, and population …

Understanding the social history and urgent social implications of gendered compulsory
birth control, an unbalanced and unjust approach to pregnancy prevention. The average …

All sociologists recognize that social constraints affect individuals' outcomes. These effects
are sometimes relatively direct. Other times constraints affect outcomes indirectly, first …

Objectives To understand how relationship status influences contraceptive use among
young people. Study Design Data were collected as part of a longitudinal study on hormonal …

Objectives US Latinas experience disproportionately high rates of unintended pregnancy
and low rates of consistent contraception use. Not well known are Latinas' perspectives …

Many aggregate-level studies suggest a relationship between economic inequality and
sociodemographic outcomes such as family formation, health, and mortality; individual-level …

Most women of reproductive age have access to highly effective contraception, and all
available methods are associated with side effects. Whether a woman will experience side …

CONTEXT Community college students, representing more than one‐third of US
undergraduates, are a diverse population of young people motivated to seek higher …

Abstract Objectives In the United States, 45% of pregnancies continue to be unintended.
Although many previous studies have focused on external barriers to contraceptive use such …

In the United States, unintended pregnancy is medicalized, having been labeled a health
problem and “treated” with contraception. Scholars find women's access to contraception is …