title: Family planning in rural Kwazulu:  transition from traditional to contemporary practices.
authors.forename: C W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Kies
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D017954:Africa South of the Sahara; D000353:Africa, Southern; D001741:Black or African American; D001519:Behavior; D001695:Biology; D001721:Birth Intervals; D001723:Birth Rate; D044383:Black People; D003075:Coitus; D003267:Contraception; D003268:Contraception Behavior; D003469:Culture; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D005006:Ethnicity; D005114:Extramarital Relations; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005298:Fertility; D007774:Lactation; D008393:Marriage; D010827:Physiology; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011247:Pregnancy; D012424:Rural Population; D012746:Sexual Abstinence; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012922:Social Change; D013019:South Africa; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013609:Taboo
keywords: Africa; Africa South Of The Sahara; Behavior; Biology; Birth Intervals; Blacks; Coital Frequency; Contraception; Contraceptive Usage; Cultural Background; Culture; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; English Speaking Africa; Ethnic Groups; Extramarital Sex Behavior; Family Planning; Family Planning, Behavioral Methods; Fertility; Fertility Measurements; Lactation; Lactation, Prolonged; Marriage; Marriage Patterns; Maternal Physiology; Nuptiality; Physiology; Polygyny; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Premarital Sex Behavior; Questionnaires; Rural Population; Sex Behavior; Sexual Abstinence; Social Change; South Africa; Southern Africa; Taboo; Tribes