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Obstacles to family planning practice in urban Morocco

Mernissi F

Studies in Family Planning, 6(12), 418-425

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Abstract

Sixty in-depth interviews with mothers living in a urban slum of Morocco probed resistances to practicing modern methods of fertility control and began to shed light on some of the reasons family planning programs often fail to reach illiterate target populations. Economic insecurity and the disintegration of the support networks of the traditional extended family complicate the difficult lives of young mothers in the urban slum. While such factors tend to encourage smaller families, the uncertainties and complexities of the socioeconomic structure contribute to the problems blocking access to modern methods of fertility control.

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Contraception/Comparison > Access and Barriers > Socioeconomic FactorsEthics/Philosophy > Reproductive Autonomy > Cultural ContextResearch Methodology > Qualitative Methods > In-Depth Interviews
family planning barriers urban Morocco socioeconomic, obstacles contraception access illiterate women developing countries, Mernissi family planning Morocco cultural barriers, urban slum fertility control resistance qualitative study, family planning program failure illiterate populations, socioeconomic factors contraception use developing world, extended family disintegration fertility decisions Morocco, economic insecurity family size preference urban poor, in-depth interview qualitative contraception barriers North Africa, modern contraception access barriers Muslim women

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Mernissi, F. (1975). Obstacles to family planning practice in urban Morocco. *Studies in family planning*, *6*(12), 418-425.

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