Most Recent Articles from Family Planning Perspectives

• Young mothers' disadvantage, not their age itself, accounts for their children's educational problems 

  The children of teenage mothers have an elevated risk of educational problems and disabilities when they reach kindergarten, but this risk is not...

  11/01/01 by Hollander, D · More from publication

• Factors influencing condom use depend upon whether a woman has had a sexually transmitted disease 

  Factors associated with condom use differ depending on whether a woman has a history of sexually transmitted disease (STD), according to a study of...

  11/01/01 by Hirozawa, A · More from publication

• New analgesia techniques for labor raise chances of normal vaginal birth 

  Two alternatives to traditional epidural analgesia effectively reduced pain during labor and, moreover, increased the likelihood that women would...

  11/01/01 by Hollander, D · More from publication

• Human papillomavirus infection, benign lesions have different risk factors 

  A type of benign lesion commonly thought to be caused by infection with the human papillomavirus (HPV) appears to have a set of risk factors...

  11/01/01 by Hollander, D · More from publication

• BRCA mutations lessen protective effect of pill against ovarian cancer 

  The protective effects against ovarian cancer of parity and oral contraceptive use differ depending on whether women have mutations of the BRCA1 or...

  11/01/01 by Rosenberg, J · More from publication

• Risks and disadvantages are raised for teenage mothers with older adult partners 

  Teenage mothers with an older adult partner may engage in more risky behavior and live in less-favorable circumstances than those with a partner...

  11/01/01 by Hollander, D · More from publication

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