For most of human history a "natural fertility" regime has prevailed throughout the world: there has been almost no conscious limitation of family size within m

In the Age of Revolution, how did American women conceive their lives and marital obligations? By examining the attitudes and behaviors surrounding the contenti

Confounding all conventional wisdom, the fertility rate in the Islamic Republic of Iran fell from around 7.0 births per woman in the early 1980s to 1.9 births p

Here is the full report of the 1970 National Fertility Study, a national sample survey for which thousands of women were interviewed who had been married at som