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1 online resource (224 pages) |
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""SOCIAL DYNAMICS OF ADOLESCENT FERTILITY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA""; ""POPULATION DYNAMICS OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Introduction ""; ""CHANGES IN TWO CONFIGURATIONS OF ADOLESCENT FERTILITY""; ""ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORKS FOR EXPLAINING CHANGE IN ADOLESCENT FERTILITY""; ""OUR APPROACH: SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON THE OUTCOMES OF ADOLESCENT FERTILITY""; ""PLAN OF THE REPORT""; ""2 Levels and Trends in Adolescent Fertility ""; ""LEVELS OF EDUCATION, SEXUAL EXPERIENCE, MARRIAGE, FERTILITY, AND CONTRACEPTIVE USE AMONG ADOLESCENTS"" |
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""TRENDS IN EDUCATION, MARRIAGE, AND FERTILITY AMONG ADOLESCENTS""""Education""; ""Marriage""; ""Fertility""; ""PUTTING THE INDICATORS TOGETHER""; ""Group 1""; ""Group 2""; ""Group 3""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""3 Marriage: New Forms, New Ambiguities ""; """"CUSTOMARY"" MARRIAGE IN AFRICA""; ""Bridewealth""; ""Participation of Kin""; ""Polygyny""; ""Problems in Defining Customary Marriage""; ""Variance in Marital Forms""; ""Marriage as a Process""; ""EFFECTS OF AMBIGUOUS MARITAL STATUS ON LEGITIMATE REPRODUCTION""; ""CHANGES IN MARRIAGE IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA""; ""Economics""; ""New Legislation"" |
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""Religion: Islam and Christianity""""Education""; ""Urbanization""; ""EFFECT OF THESE CHANGES ON MARRIAGE""; ""EFFECTS OF MARITAL CHANGES ON PREMARITAL SEXUALITY AND REPRODUCTION""; ""4 Reproductive Entitlement: The Social Context of Fertility and Parenthood ""; ""THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MARRIAGE AND REPRODUCTION""; ""THE VALUE OF CHILDREN""; ""REPRODUCTION WITHIN THE SEQUENCE OF LIFE EVENTS""; ""EARNING REPRODUCTIVE ENTITLEMENT""; ""THE BOUNDARIES OF ADOLESCENT SEXUALITY""; ""THE REGULATION OF PATERNITY""; ""CHANGES IN ADOLESCENT SEXUALITY AND REPRODUCTION"" |
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""New Patterns of Male Sexuality and Reproduction""""New Pressures on Women""; ""CHANGES IN UNSANCTIONED BIRTHS""; ""5 Education and Adolescent Fertility ""; ""THE ""CULTURE"" OF FORMAL EDUCATION: AN EXAMPLE FROM SIERRA LEONE""; ""LEVELS AND TRENDS IN FORMAL EDUCATION""; ""EDUCATIONAL INFLUENCES ON ADOLESCENT FERTILITY""; ""WHY DO SCHOOLGIRLS BECOME PREGNANT?""; ""EFFECTS OF ADOLESCENT FERTILITY ON EDUCATION""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""6 Early Work, Training, and Preparation for Adulthood ""; ""ADOLESCENT LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION""; ""What Do Adolescents Do?""; ""Farming""; ""Wage Labor"" |
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""Trade Apprenticeships""""The Urban Informal Sector and Self-Employment""; ""PATTERNS OF FEMALE EMPLOYMENT""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""FERTILITY AND TRAINING OUTSIDE SCHOOLING""; ""Women's Trade Apprenticeships""; ""Fostering and Home Training""; ""Variations on the Theme of Training and Fertility""; ""Secluded Female Industry""; ""Eastern Versus Western African Trade Apprenticeships""; ""Rice Farming""; ""Generational Exchanges: Training for Labor""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""7 Consequences of Adolescent Sexuality and Childbearing for Mothers and Children "" |
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""Health consequences of adolescent fertility"" |
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Teenage pregnancy -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Teenagers -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Social conditions
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Teenagers -- Sexual behavior -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Sexual ethics -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Fertility, Human -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Fertility, Human
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Sexual ethics
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Teenage pregnancy
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Teenagers -- Sexual behavior
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Teenagers -- Social conditions
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Sub-Saharan Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bledsoe, Caroline H.
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Cohen, Barney, 1959-
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| ISBN |
9780309585538 |
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0309585538 |
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