title: Assisted reproduction may change birth intentions.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine whether the development and expansion of assisted reproductive technology (ART) between 1982 and 1995 raised the birth intentions of subfecund people relative to fecund people.
  
  
  METHODS
  Comparison of birth intention rates among fecund and subfecund women in the 1982, 1988, and 1995 rounds of the National Survey of Family Growth, standardized by age, parity, and education.
  
  
  METHODS
  No clinical setting.
  
  
  METHODS
  Nationally representative samples of married women who were 20 to 44 years old.
  
  
  METHODS
  None.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Between 1982 and 1995, birth intentions rose at least 2.5 times faster among subfecund women than among fecund women. This rise was not due to increasing average age at maternity over the period.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The development of ART and expansion of services may well have increased birth intentions among subfecund women between 1982 and 1995.
authors.affiliation: Populations Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. kmiller@ibisreproductivehealth.org
authors.forename: Kate
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007246:Infertility / Q000523:psychology*; D033182:Intention; D015233:Models, Statistical; D012098:Reproduction; D027724:Reproductive Techniques, Assisted; D014481:United States