Fertility awareness and parenting attitudes among American male and female undergraduate university students

Human Reproduction

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1375-1382

  Peterson, Brennan D ^a   Pirritano, Matthew ^b   Tucker, Laura ^a   Lampic, Claudia ^c  

^a CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Orange County Health Care Agency   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Fertility awareness; Involuntary childlessness; Parenthood; University students

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PARENTHOOD; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCTION; SELF REPORT; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860159509     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/des011     Document Type: Article

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