caa a22 4500 386396744 CHVBK 20180307112140.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021932000018113 doi S0021932000018113 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021932000018113 Contraceptive practice of Irish married and single first-time mothers [Elektronische Daten] This study surveys 100 married and 100 unmarried primiparous mothers, attending the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, with regard to their contraceptive practice, their planning of their pregnancy and the timing of their first antenatal visit. Nineteen per cent of the married women, but 64% of the unmarried women, had never used any contraceptive method. The contraceptive pill was the most popular method for both groups, but while three in five of the married women had at some time used the pill, only a little more than one in five of the unmarried women had ever used it. One quarter of the women who had used contraception reported that their pregnancy was the result of a failure in their contraceptive method. Eighty-nine per cent of the single group and 20% of the married had not planned their pregnancy. None of the married women, but almost a quarter of the single, delayed their first antenatal visit until after they were 20 weeks pregnant. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Greene Sheila M. Department of Psychology, Trinity College, Dublin Joy Marie-Therese National Maternity Hospital, Dublin Nugent J. K. Child Development Unit, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA O'Mahony P. Department of Psychology, Trinity College, Dublin Journal of Biosocial Science Cambridge University Press 21/4(1989-10), 379-386 0021-9320 21:4<379 1989 21 JBS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932000018113 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932000018113 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Greene Sheila M. Department of Psychology, Trinity College, Dublin NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Joy Marie-Therese National Maternity Hospital, Dublin NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nugent J. K. Child Development Unit, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- O'Mahony P. Department of Psychology, Trinity College, Dublin NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Biosocial Science Cambridge University Press 21/4(1989-10), 379-386 0021-9320 21:4<379 1989 21 JBS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge