title: Unwanted and mistimed births in the United States: 1968--1973.
abstract: Unwanted U.S. marital fertility was down to just nine percent by 1973. The largest proportion of unwanted births was reported by poor black women--23 percent--but this group registered the steepest decline in unwanted childbearing of all the poverty-status and racial groups studied.
mesh_terms: D005193:Family Planning Services; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008393:Marriage; D011247:Pregnancy; D011275:Pregnancy, Unwanted; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States