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  • Title: Men, sex, and parenthood.
    Author: Sachs A.
    Journal: World Watch; 1994; 7(2):12-9. PubMed ID: 12287751.
    Abstract:
    An emphasis on male responsibility in family planning is gaining credibility as a means of encouraging men to fulfill their responsibilities as fathers and to contribute to population control. The traditional emphasis of family planning programs on female methods of contraception has enabled many men to avoid the connection between sex and reproduction. Unfortunately, the three methods available to men--withdrawal, condoms, and vasectomy--are viewed negatively by men, and only about 8% of the world's contraceptive research budget is allocated toward the development of new male methods. Moreover, in many developing countries, men are not only resistant to condom use or vasectomy, but also prohibit their female partners from practicing fertility control. Policy makers and program directors tend to conceptualize the family as a mother-child unit, without attention to gender dynamics. An unintended consequence of the emphasis on women as contraceptive users has been a tendency to blame women for overpopulation, even though men father, on average, two more children over their life span than women. An initial step toward encouraging men to consider the consequences of sex without contraception is to enforce child support payments. Such efforts are most effective, however, when combined with educational campaigns that change men's attitudes and encourage joint decision making among couples.
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