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. 1978 May-Jun;10(3):168-72.

Unwanted and mistimed births in the United States: 1968--1973

R H Weller, F B Hobbs
  • PMID: 658325

Unwanted and mistimed births in the United States: 1968--1973

R H Weller et al. Fam Plann Perspect. 1978 May-Jun.

Abstract

Unwanted U.S. marital fertility was down to just nine percent by 1973. The largest proportion of unwanted births was reported by poor black women--23 percent--but this group registered the steepest decline in unwanted childbearing of all the poverty-status and racial groups studied.

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