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K F Darabi

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PubMed1987

Childbearing among young Latino women in the United States.

We analyzed 1979 and 1982 data from the Youth Cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) of Labor Market Experience to compare rates of early childbearing among White, Black, Mexican-origin and Puerto Rican women up to age 21. Latino young women fall in between the extremely low rate of the Whites and the extremely high rate of the Blacks. Mexican and Puerto Rican young women have similar proportions of premarital first births, but the marital first birth rate for young Mexicans is twice that of the Puerto Ricans. The bulk of Mexican first births, like births to Whites, occur within marriage, while Puerto Rican first births are similar to those of Blacks, the majority being out-of-wedlock. These racial/ethnic differences in premarital first birth rates do not change greatly when socioeconomic status, and birthplace of respondents and respondents' parents are controlled.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1986

Hispanic adolescent fertility.

Knowledge regarding the fertility of Hispanic adolescents in the US is quite limited. This paper discusses the fertility of these adolescents and summarizes what is known about sexuality, contraception, pregnancy, and childbearing among male and female Hispanics of various countries of origin. As a group, Hispanic adolescents have birth rates that fall between those of non-Hispanic whites and blacks, but there is considerable within-group variation in Hispanic fertility. More research is needed concerning the correlates of these rates with factors such as age, marital status, socioeconomic level, or generational status in the US.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1986

Motivations for adolescents' first visit to a family planning clinic.

Although family planning clinics routinely gather data on referral sources and primary reasons for visits, little is known about the "precipitating events" which motivate young women to make an appointment or show up at a clinic on a given day. In this study, 150 new patients at a large urban clinic were interviewed to determine what events or advice specifically led to their decision to approach a family planning clinic for the first time. The roles of pregnancy scares, advice from significant others, and situational factors in motivating service use are presented along with a discussion of the program implications of these findings.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1977

Collaborative study on hysteroscopic sterilization procedures. Preliminary report.

Preliminary results of a retrospective study of 773 cases of hysteroscopic sterilization are presented. Of the 524 cases tested for tubal patency, 186 (35.5%) were considered failures either because of incomplete blockage of the tubes or pregnancy. Fifty-nine pregnancies (23.7%) were reported in the 249 cases which were not tested for tubal patency. In the total population 25 complications were designated as major, for a major complication rate of 3.2%. These included uterine perforation, bowel damage, peritonitis, ectopic preganncy, and 1 death from bowel perforation with peritonitis. The implications of these excessively high failure and complication rates are discussed, and plans are described for further analysis of the data.

Adult↗