Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-8bhkd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-09T14:34:21.553Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Domiciliary family planning services: a reappraisal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2011

P. F. Selman
Affiliation:
Department of Social Studies, The University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Extract

When the first Eugenics Society Symposium (Meade & Parkes, 1965) was held in 1964, its final session, on ‘Aspects of Fertility Control’, included two papers (Peberdy, 1965; Morgan, 1965) describing experimental family planning services, which offered advice and treatment in their own homes to the ‘problem parents’ of large families in the lower working class. These two projects, established from 1959 onwards in Newcastle and Southampton, together with a similar service pioneered in York by Dr Dronfield, have been used as models for subsequent ‘domiciliary family planning services’, and an account of one (Brittan, 1964) has been reprinted by the FPA as an information leaflet.

Type
Problems of fertility control
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Barnard, D. (1969) Contraceptive visits. New Soc. 13, 15.Google Scholar
Beasley, J.D., Frankowski, R.F. & Hawkins, C.M. (1969) The Orleans parish family planning program. Milbank meml Fund q. Bull. 47, 25.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bertram, G.C.L. (1966) Successful strategy. In: Notes of the Quarter. Eugen. Rev. 43, 6.Google Scholar
Brittan, R. (1964) One foot in the door. Family Planning, 13, 63.Google Scholar
Brooks, E. (1968) Family planning and local health authorities. Med. Offr, 120, 245.Google Scholar
Corkey, E.C. (1966) The birth control program in Mecklenburg County Public Health Dept. Am. J. publ. Hlth. Suppl. 56, 40.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Draper, E. (1965) Birth Control in the Modern World. Penguin Books, London.Google Scholar
Family Planning Association (1970) 38th Report and Accounts, 1969–70. FPA, London.Google Scholar
Florence, L.S. (1956) Progress Report on Birth Control. Heinemann, London.Google Scholar
Jaffe, F.S. (1968) A strategy for implementing family planning services in the U.S. Am. J. publ. Hlth, 58, 713.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jaffe, F. & Polgar, S. (1968) Family planning and public policy: is the ‘culture of poverty’ the new cop-out. J. Marriage Family, 30, 228.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jahoda, M., Deutsch, M. & Cook, S. (Eds.) (1951) Research Methods in Social Relations. The Dryden Press, New York.Google Scholar
Lafitte, F. (1963) Family Planning in the Sixties. Report of Working Party on the FPA, Birmingham.Google Scholar
Mckinlay, J. (1968) Better maternity and child care for whom … ? Med. Offr, 120, 275.Google Scholar
McQueen, I. (1969) An integrated local authority family planning service. Family Planning, 18, 31.Google Scholar
Meade, J. & Parkes, A.S. (Eds.) (1965) Biological Aspects of Social Problems. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mitchell, E. (1967) Domiciliary visiting in London. Family Planning, 15, 107.Google Scholar
Morgan, D. (1965) The acceptance by problem parents in Southampton of a domiciliary birth control service. In: Biological Aspects of Social Problems. Edited by Meade, J. & Parkes, A.S.. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh.Google Scholar
Morgan, D. (1968) Family planning in problem families. Publ. Hlth, 82, 125.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Peberdy, M. (1960) Home help: An experimental service for domiciliary birth control. Family Planning, 9, 12.Google Scholar
Peberdy, M. (1965) Fertility control for problem parents—a five-year experiment in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In: Biological Aspects of Social Problems. Edited by Meade, J. & Parkes, A.S.. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh.Google Scholar
Peel, J. (1966) A fertility control experiment among problem families. Med. Offr, 116, 357.Google Scholar
Peel, J. (1969) A male-oriented fertility control experiment. Practitioner, 202, 677.Google Scholar
Peel, J. & Potts, M. (1969) Textbook of Contraceptive Practice. Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Peel, J. & Schenk, F. (1965) Domiciliary birth control: a new dimension on negative eugenics. Eugen. Rev. 57, 67.Google ScholarPubMed
Riessman, C.K. (1968) Birth control, culture and the poor. Am. J. Orthopsychiat, 38, 693.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Seidman, D.R. (1970) Alternative modes of delivering family planning services. Studies in Family Planning, 52, 6.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shlakman, V. (1968) Social work's role in family planning: social policy issues. In: Family Planning: The Role of Social Work. Edited by Hazelkorn, Florence. Adelphi School of Social Work, U.S.Google Scholar
Stopes, M.C. (1928) Contraception (Birth Control) its Theory and Practice. John Bale, Sons and Daniellson Ltd, London.Google Scholar
Taylor, H.C. (1966) A Family planning program related to a maternity service. In: Family Planning and Population Programs. Edited by Berelson, B.. University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Ward, A.M. (1969) Family planning clinics in Sheffield, 1967. J. biosoc. Sci. 1, 207.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed