Health agendas for low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) should embrace and afford
greater priority to urban family planning to help achieve a number of the global Sustainable …

Background Global fertility declines have become an inevitable trend, and many countries
are adopting policies to drive fertility increases. Fertility intention plays an important role in …

Persistently high levels of unintended fertility, combined with evidence that over-and
underachieved fertility are typical and not exceptional, have prompted researchers to …

A decline in the fertility rate has been observed worldwide, which hampers social
development severely. Given the impacts of COVID-19 on individuals and society, it is of …

Objectives This study provides an evolutionary perspective to a classic topic in demography,
that is, the discrepancy between reproductive intention and subsequent behavior, in the …

Background Fertility intentions have been proved to be a reliable predictor of actual fertility
behaviour. Also, childbirth-related fear (CBRF) has been proven to be negatively associated …

Objectives The objective of this study was to describe the fertility intentions of urban working
women whose family planning has been limited to one child since the universal two-child …

Background There is an increasing demand for family planning to limit childbearing in sub-
Saharan Africa (SSA). However, limited studies have quantified the spatial variations. This …

Son preference has been shown to influence the childbearing behavior of women,
especially in China. Existing research has largely focused on this issue using cross …

Background A high fertility rate can have a number of expensive consequences for
developing nations, such as limiting economic growth, adversely impacting women and their …