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Title: | Traditional fertility regulating practices and child spacing |
Author: | Getui, Mary N. |
Year: | 1994 |
Periodical: | African Anthropology (ISSN 1024-0969) |
Volume: | 1 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 87-93 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | family planning contraception fertility Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Health and Nutrition Women's Issues Fertility and Infertility Cultural Roles Marital Relations and Nuptiality Family Planning and Contraception |
Abstract: | Various methods were traditionally available, known, and utilized by women throughout Africa to regulate fertility. These included extended breastfeeding, sexual abstinence, coitus interruptus in the postpartum period, oral medicines, knot tying, and intravaginal devices. Traditional methods of regulating fertility have been abandoned but modern family planning methods are not being adopted. The author suggests how and why child spacing and some traditional fertility regulating practices - those that are effective and do not adversely affect the user - can be fostered to help control Africa's population. Bibliogr., ref. |