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Repeat induced abortion: single, married and divorced women

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

B. E. Aguirre
B. E. Aguirre
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas, USA
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Summary

This examination of the effects of marital status on repeat abortion assesses, by multiple classification analysis, the importance of a set of predictors of repeat abortion (age, education, occupation, residence, religion, social support for the abortion, attitudes towards abortion, ambivalence to the abortion, source of idea of the abortion, referral source, contraceptive use) in a clinic sample of 984 single, married and divorced women. The different results for the three categories of women demonstrate the centrality of man–woman relations for an understanding of repeat abortion behaviour, and the need to orient future work on repeat abortion away from a predominant concern with contraception. Abortion can be understood only in terms of the cultural values and social practices which regulate different couple relations.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , July 1980 , pp. 275 - 286
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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