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Modern contraception is more common than a generation ago.
Across sub-Saharan Africa the proportion of women who use modern contraception is less than 16%.
Or it could be that modern contraception is overrated, and that older methods of family planning, such as being careful about when during a woman's menstrual cycle a couple have sex, were more effective than they are given credit for.
The positive effect of household wealth on the use of modern contraception is expected.
In the case of the regression results, the effect of a woman's age on use of condoms and other modern contraception is not unexpected.
The effect of a partner's education on use of modern contraception is higher than that of the woman, and a much stronger correlation exists between household wealth and use of reproductive health inputs than expected.
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Low use of modern contraception was matched by low levels of knowledge of contraceptive methods in most sites.
Ever use of modern contraception was defined as a woman using any form of contraceptive method apart from periodic abstinence, withdrawal, calendar-based methods, or lactational amenorrhea methods.
Previous use of modern contraception was a strong, positive predictor of post-partum modern FP use: women who used a modern contraceptive prior to the index birth were 1.53 times as likely as those who did not to adopt a modern method of contraception post-partum (p<.001).
The answer was that only about 1% of men (and therefore, presumably, of women, too) were conceived on the wrong side of the blanket, even in an age when modern contraception was not available.A second study Dr Larmuseau conducted, involving the descendants of 16th-century French immigrants to Flanders, came up with a figure of 2%—again, in the same range as modern rates of extra-pair paternity.
The very fatalism that has always defined the Russian temperament – the ability to bear the cold, the wars, the dictators, with a hollow shrug, is now, in tandem with modern contraception, being turned against their species.
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