Addressing Japan's Fertility Decline: Influences of Unintended Pregnancy on Child Rearing

Reproductive Health Matters

Volumn 14, Issue 27, 2006, Pages 191-200

  Goto, Aya ^a   Yasumura, Seiji ^a   Yabe, Junko ^b   Reich, Michael R ^c  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Public Health Section   (Japan)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescents and young people; fertility; Japan; parenting; social policy; unplanned pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; UNWANTED PREGNANCY;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD REARING; FATHER-CHILD RELATIONS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, UNWANTED;

EID: 33646534189     PISSN: 09688080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-8080(06)27233-1     Document Type: Article

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