Has Human Fertility Declined Over Time?
EpidemiologyPublished 9 June 2005
Markku Sallm n, Clarice R. Weinberg, Donna D. Baird, Marja-Liisa Lindbohm, Allen J. Wilcox
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Over the past 5 decades, changes in social factors that affect the rate and fate of unintended pregnancies could substantially bias time trends in fertility.
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Over the past 5 decades, changes in social factors that affect the rate and fate of unintended pregnancies could substantially bias time trends in fertility. These biases may explain the conflicting reports in the literature. Except in rare settings in which the factors affecting reproductive choices have not changed, it is probably impossible to identify biologic changes in fertility over recent decades.
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