Chapter 1: Disturbing Trends in the Health Care of Women, Children and Families

divorce rate increase since 1960s, contraception linked to family breakdown, oral contraceptive pill social impact, children living without both parents, teenage pregnancy rates rising, unmarried births statistics trends, abortion rates after roe v wade, contraception does not reduce abortion, child abuse and family disintegration, sexually transmitted disease epidemic, HPV cervical cancer oral contraceptives, breast cancer risk birth control pills, prematurity rates doubling united states, IVF multiple pregnancy risks, triplet quadruplet health complications, infant mortality multiple births, low birth weight babies increasing, teenage depression and sexual activity, suicide rates young people rising, chlamydia gonorrhea infection trends, ectopic pregnancy rates increasing, condom distribution does not stop HIV, sexual promiscuity health consequences, value-based sex education effectiveness, alcohol use teenage sexual activity, postmenopausal motherhood artificial reproduction, embryo experimentation frozen storage, selective reduction multifetal pregnancy, family violence epidemic modern society, women asserting sexual self-respect