Family planning: views of female non-acceptors in rural India
Kartikeyan, S.; Chaturvedi, R.M.
Journal of Postgraduate Medicine 41(2): 37-39
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-3859 PMID: 10707706 Document Number: 313902
A study conducted on eligible rural women who were unwilling to accept family planning methods revealed that many women were concerned about child survival and viewed children as a source of support in old age. Family size was usually decided by in-laws. Pressure from in-laws to have more children was significantly higher in families where the women were less educated or illiterate.