This paper examines the demographic trend in Korea focusing on the period since 1985. It is suggested that the change in fertility and mortality is the main driving force for the aging structure of population. The continuing decline of fertility below the replacement rate is accompanied by the changes in the various aspects of fertility including the delay in marriage and childbearing, an incre...

INTRODUCTION American Indian women often have poor perinatal outcomes and are at risk for early childbearing. The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the experience and meaning of early childbearing among American Indian women. METHODS Employing interpretive phenomenology and a semistructured interview guide, we interviewed 30 adult American Indian women residing in a northwes...

Unwanted pregnancy among adolescents is a global issue in urban and rural areas around the world. There are many factors that influence incident of unwanted pregnancy. This study intends to identify social environmental cause pregnancies adolescents. A qualitative research design was employed gain mothers’ adolescents’ perspectives on their experiences Semi-structured interviews with five Malay...

pre-marriage couples` fertility attitude following recent childbearing persuasive policies in iran farrokh-eslamlou hr , vahabzadeh z *, moeini sr ,moghaddam tabrizi f received: 5 sep , 2013 accepted: 16 nov , 2013 abstract background & aims: following a phenomenal fertility decline during recent two decades in iran, the childbearing persuasive policy has been implemented. the goals of this stu...

Background & aim: Iranian policymakers have recently shifted away from a birth control towards a pro-fertility policies. In this regard, it is indispensable to recognize the determinants of childbearing willingness to evaluate the influence of these policies on certain target groups. With this background in mind, the present study aimed to find determinants of childbea...

Recent research shows that runtime models can be used to build dynamic systems coping with changing requirements and execution environments. As software systems are getting bigger and more complex, locating malfunctioning software parts is no trivial task because of the vast amount of possible error sources and produced logging information. This information has to be traced back to faulty compo...

This study was performed to estimate the prevalence of abortions and to evaluate its association with the socio-demographic factors in an urban slum. The data was collected based on recall obstetric history from186 females through systematic random sampling from 01.04.2001 to 30.06.2001. It was found that the abortion rate was 419.35 / 1000 women of reproductive age group. Abortion ratio was 10...

We use data from the earlier and later cohorts of the NLSY to estimate the effect of marriage and childbearing on wages. Our estimates imply that marriage lowers female wages 2-4 percent in the year of marriage. Marriage also lowers the wage growth of men and women by about two and four percentage points, respectively. A first birth lowers female wages 2-3 percent, but has no effect on wage gro...