The Relationship between Sexual Assault and Noncontraception among Women at Risk of Unintended Pregnancy
Year: 2016
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States each year are unintended, resulting in a large taxpayer burden and undesirable consequences for both mothers and their children. While the majority of unintended pregnancies occur among women who were not using contraception, this subgroup remains largely understudied. A woman’s prior experience of rape is an understudied correlate of contraceptive behavior. This paper examines the relationship between nonuse of contraceptives and prior experience of rape among a nationally representative sample of adult women in the United States who are at risk of unintended pregnancy. In logistic regression models accounting for a rich set of controls, no relationship is found between rape and noncontraception. These findings indicate that the experience of sexual assault may not impact women’s contraceptive behavior.
Author: Sarah Murphy
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2493029873