STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to study the influence of childbearing pattern on the incidence of breast cancer and uterine corpus cancer. DESIGN This was an ecological study of birth cohorts of women. SETTING The study was population based, involving the whole of Norway. PARTICIPANTS The participants were Norwegian women born between 1890 and 1944. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Age specif...

The number of countries experiencing very low fertility has been rising in recent years, garnering increasing academic, political and media attention. There is now widespread academic agreement that the postponement of fertility is a major contributing factor in the very low levels of fertility that have occurred, and yet most policy discussions have been devoted to increasing the numbers of ch...

CONTEXT Childbearing intentions vary by race and ethnicity and by relationship type. However, few studies have examined whether they differ by race and ethnicity within relationship type. METHODS Data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study were used to examine the childbearing intentions of 9,100 mothers of a cohort of children born in 2001. Multivariate and multinomial regression analys...

Background: Reproduction is an important population concept throughout the world, and demographists consider it among four main life events. Given Iran's population growth policy, this study was conducted to assess the tendency to pregnancy in women in Zanjan. Method: From among health centers in five geographical districts in Zanjan (North, South, East, West, and Center), one was randomly sel...

Abstract At the individual level, a very strong negative relationship is observed between age at first birth and total number of children. However, country it possible that no exists factors reduce fertility younger ages stimulate older ages. Hence, across countries, size decline in youth potentially unrelated to increase or fertility. We study women their childbirth, with particular attention ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Normal fertility follows a set of biological, social and cultural rules and regulations; controlled fertility, however, follows the rules and regulations of the family. The present study was therefore conducted to identify the factors influencing the first childbearing decision-making in women living in Shahroud, Iran, in 2014. MATERIALS & METHODS The present descripti...