Childless by choice: a clinical study.
The authors report on a longitudinal study that involved the interviewing and testing of 33 young women volunteers who chose either contraception (N=18) or tubal ligation (N=15) to achieve infertility. They found that for these women the choice to be childless was multidetermined, persistent over time, and ego-syntonic. Comparison with other samples of women indicate that this is a distinct and nontraditional population.
D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D003268:Contraception Behavior; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D009042:Motivation; D011247:Pregnancy; D012380:Role; D013246:Sterilization, Tubal