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

摘要: 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 Michigan county and semi-structured interviews with subsample 60 women. In data, for pregnancy, indifference, ambivalence are very rare but more prevalent among Black than White interviews, although few described fatalistic beliefs lack planning future pregnancies, did so equally often. Women often when retrospectively describing their past prospectively future. Using compare prospective desires women's recollections those after they conceived, shifted positive negative, were likely shift women-that is, do not differentially overreport desired pregnancies as having been undesired before conception. Young consistent (over repeated interviews) expression strong correspondingly weak along similarity plans, lead us conclude that "planning paradigm"-in which encouraged supported implementing desires-is probably appropriate vast majority and, most importantly, is similarly