Absent and problematic men: Demographic accounts of male reproductive roles

Greene, Michael B.; Biddlecom, Ann E.

doi:10.31899/pgy6.1003

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“…Even in settings where methods that involve men are emphasized, such as Bolivia, Pakistan, and Turkey, the promotion of family planning has not focused on creating male interest and involvement. One unfortunate consequence of this common model of reproductive health has been to reinforce the idea of family planning as women's responsi-bility, leaving little or no role for men (Greene and Biddlecom 2000).…”

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Cultivating Men's Interest in Family Planning in Rural El Salvador

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Studies in Family Planning

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A pilot project in rural El Salvador tested the integration of family planning into a water and sanitation program as a strategy for increasing male involvement in family planning decison making and use. The organizations involved posited that integrating family planning into a resource management and community development project would facilitate male involvement by diffusing information, by referring men and women to services, and by expanding method choice to include the new Standard Days Method through networks established around issues men cared about and were already involved in. This article examines data from a community-based household survey to assess the impact of the intervention and finds significant changes in contraceptive knowledge, attitudes, and behavior from baseline to endline. Because the differences between baseline and endline are greater than the differences between participants and nonparticipants at endline, the study demonstrates the power of informal networks for spreading information.

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Cultivating Men's Interest in Family Planning in Rural El Salvador

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Studies in Family Planning

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“…Despite calls to examine the voices of men as individuals who have their own reproductive desires and histories independent from their partners (e.g., Goldscheider and Kaufman, 1996;Greene and Biddlecom, 2000), relatively little research exists on men's feelings about unplanned fatherhood or their preferred outcomes for pregnancy. Qualitative research, for example, shows that men often defer to their female partners when making decisions about fertility (from contraception to pregnancy outcomes), though it remains unclear if they prefer to allow their partners to make fertility decisions or if they do so only because current laws provide them no real legal rights to make decisions about whether to carry out or terminate a pregnancy (Johnson and Williams, 2005).…”

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“…Researchers have consistently called on social scientists to examine these reproductive histories of men independent from their partners (e.g., Goldscheider and Kaufman, 1996;Greene and Biddlecom, 2000). Among this sample, the majority of those whose prior partners gave birth were living with them at the time.…”

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Cohabiting Men’s Preferences for and Roles in Determining the Outcomes of Unexpected Pregnancies¹

Miller¹

2012

Sociological Forum

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Growing numbers of men are fathering children within cohabiting unions. However, we know little about their desires for and preferred roles in making fertility decisions. To address this gap, I use data from 61 in‐depth interviews with working‐ and middle‐class cohabiting men to examine their stated preferences should their partners experience an unplanned pregnancy. For some men, the decision appears to be a relatively stable personal or political one, but most draw on their current relationships and/or financial or maturational situations when noting their desires. A subsample of 22 men from this group who have experienced pregnancies is used to explore men’s actual roles in negotiating whether a conception was terminated or carried to term. Despite the fact that most men would like to have input into decisions to abort or carry a pregnancy to term, the majority were not actually involved in making decisions with their partners (especially the decision to abort) when pregnancies occurred. Results are interpreted in light of social class differences in family formation processes.

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“…Rather than understanding intentions as simply "out there," we might do better to try to uncover the interpersonal, material, and cultural foundations out of which "intentions" are constructed (Holland et al 1998). Fertility researchers often measure only women's intentions and expectations (Greene and Biddlecom 2000), but it is important to consider possible differences between partners and the implicit and explicit negotiations that take place between partners (Miller et al 2004;Thomson 1997;Voas 2003). For example, Zabin et al (2000) showed that women's stated birth intentions often vary from partner to partner.…”

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Greil

McQuillan

2010

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

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Researchers studying infertility from the perspective of anthropology and other the social sciences seldom examine the assumptions embedded in the biomedical definition of infertility. Implicit in the biomedical definition is the assumption that people can be divided straightforwardly into those who are trying to conceive and those who are not trying to conceive. If being infertile implies “intent to conceive,” we must recognize that there are various degrees of intent and that the line between the fertile and the infertile is not as sharp as is usually imagined. Drawing on structured interview data collected from a random sample of Midwestern U.S. women and from qualitative interviews, we demonstrate that that there is a wide range of intent among those classified as infertile according to the biomedical definition. We explore the implications of this for research.

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Absent and problematic men: Demographic accounts of male reproductive roles

Cited by 59 publications

References 81 publications

Cultivating Men's Interest in Family Planning in Rural El Salvador

Cultivating Men's Interest in Family Planning in Rural El Salvador

Cohabiting Men’s Preferences for and Roles in Determining the Outcomes of Unexpected Pregnancies¹

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Cohabiting Men’s Preferences for and Roles in Determining the Outcomes of Unexpected Pregnancies1

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