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

Contraception is widely used in the United States, and nurses in all settings may encounter
patients who are using or want to use contraceptives. Nurses may be called on to anticipate …

The humble idea that experts are ordinary human beings leads to surprising conclusions
about how to get the best possible expert advice. All too often, experts have monopoly …

Objective To conduct a comprehensive review of racial and ethnic health disparities in
infertility care and treatment. Evidence Review Systematic literature searches were …

While the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was felt widely, for Black communities–
particularly in the US and Britain–it was felt more severely. This was compounded by …

As more women choose to forgo motherhood, childfree women and people assigned female
at birth (AFAB) are important to study, particularly given pronatalist ideals that can make the …

OBJECTIVE: To compare female sterilization among three mutually exclusive groups of
females: 1) those without any self-reported disability, 2) those with noncognitive disabilities …

Abstract Damage-centered research (Tuck, 2009) dehumanizes Black people by focusing
on disparities rather than cultural capital. Moving away from theories that frame blackness as …

Infertility is a common yet often misunderstood experience. Infertility is an important topic for
family scientists because of its effects on families, its relevance to research in related areas …

Nearly one half of women between the ages of 40 and 44 who do not have children are
voluntarily childless, or “childfree”(Pew Research Center,). Many childfree women (and …