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Do perceptions of their partners’ childbearing desires affect young women’s pregnancy risk? Further study of ambivalence

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  • Warren B. Miller
  • Jennifer S. Barber
  • Paul Schulz

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We explore whether young women’s perceptions of their sexual partners’ childbearing desires contribute to their risk of pregnancy. We used weekly journal data collected from 787 young women to measure their childbearing desires and their perceptions of their partners’ childbearing desires. We then conducted hazard modelling to predict pregnancy risk with variables based on interactions between the women’s desires and their perceived partners’ desires. Models that include perceived partners’ desires perform better than one based on women’s desires alone. The best model contains three significant predictors: one confirms the importance of pronatal, ambivalent, and indifferent desires for pregnancy risk; one indicates that the perceived partners’ antinatal desires reduce women’s pregnancy risk; and one suggests that women who both perceive their partners accurately and are in agreement with them have a lower pregnancy risk. The results indicate that perceived partner data can improve prediction and enhance our understanding of pregnancy risk.

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  • Warren B. Miller & Jennifer S. Barber & Paul Schulz, 2017. "Do perceptions of their partners’ childbearing desires affect young women’s pregnancy risk? Further study of ambivalence," Population Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 71(1), pages 101-116, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpstxx:v:71:y:2017:i:1:p:101-116
    DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2016.1253858
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    1. Karen Benjamin Guzzo & Sarah R. Hayford & Vanessa Wanner Lang & Hsueh-Sheng Wu & Jennifer Barber & Yasamin Kusunoki, 2019. "Dimensions of Reproductive Attitudes and Knowledge Related to Unintended Childbearing Among U.S. Adolescents and Young Adults," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 56(1), pages 201-228, February.
    2. Jennifer Barber & Heather Gatny, 2021. "The social context of retrospective-prospective changes in pregnancy desire during the transition to adulthood: The role of fathers and intimate relationships," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 44(38), pages 899-940.

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