Abstracts of current publications in the fields of population and family planning are presented in this pamphlet. Topical areas include: demography and social science, human reproduction and fertility control, family planning programs, population policy, and general publications. Research studies, monthly reports, journal articles, and general…

The role of Polish rural women in the family and in the community is what the African peoples and governments are doing about them. It is stated categorically that a problem does exist. Indicators often used to deny this industralization of agricultural regions, the activity of public organizations, and the development of cultural-educational…

This quarterly accessions list of books received and catalogued in the library of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) Central Office in London is concerned mainly with such subject areas as family life and sex education, child care and health, demography, and education. Books only are included and are arranged in classified…

The increasing popularity of sterilization underscores the need for knowledge about couples choosing male and female procedures. This research delineates four sets of variables that may be important for the decision and examines their relationship with the choice of male or female procedure among a sample of married couples. (Author)

This is a study of new birth-control patients in four Los Angeles suburban area Planned Parenthood clinics. The data include interviews, tests, questionnaires, and archival and demographic information, focusing particularly on personality, attitude, and motivation variables. (BB)

A family group that is increasing in number is that of people who have chosen to delay parenthood until after age 30. Problems and pleasures of this growing trend are discussed. (CB)

School-based health clinics currently exist in 30 cities across the country, and more are being planned. Do the clinics offer students needed health services or undermine parental authority by offering birth control information? Discusses the benefits such clinics provide, their widespread supporters, and their opponents. (MD)

Interviewed two-children families, comprised of 200 parents which included both mothers and fathers. Significant correlations were found between wife's number of siblings, desired family size of both spouses, and future family size. No significant relationship was found between sex of children and preferred family size. (Author/MCF)

Investigated the relationship of information search in the childbearing decision to life satisfaction in 62 mothers and 23 voluntarily childless women who responded to a questionnaire. Results indicated that information search was related to positive outcomes for mothers. For childless women, information search was negatively related to life…

This encyclopedia brings together in more than 200 entries, arranged in A-to-Z format, a portrait of the complex modern issue that birth control has become with advances in medicine and biochemistry during the 20th century. It is aimed at both the student and the consumer of birth control. Entries cover the following topics: birth control…

A study of student attitudes toward family size, use of contraceptives, authoritarian, permissive approaches to childrearing, parental responsibilities of the husband and wife and divorce. Hypotheses concerning determinants of these attitudes are also tested. (JC)

The necessity for control, not only of population growth, but also of spiraling costs are cited. (JB)

Indicating that the Commission's Report has relevance to women as they are American citizens, this article centers on the sections dealing with children's and women's status, the chapter on reproduction, and the proposal on education. (JB)

The interval between births, as related to the nutritional status of children in a low-income community in Haiti, suggests the need to integrate education on child spacing into nutrition education programs. (BL)