9/24/2023 0 Comments Isabel v. sawhill, generation unbound: drifting into sex and parenthood without marriage![]() ![]() That compares with 8 percent in the Netherlands, 10 percent in the United Kingdom, 22.7 percent in France and 23.3 percent in Norway. ![]() Wider use of LARCs would seem to be a sensible, powerful approach to getting that number down, but only 5.3 percent of women who practice contraception in the United States use them, according to 2012 data cited by Sawhill. The result, Sawhill writes, is that is that about half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended, and among young, single women, 60 percent of births are unplanned. Sawhill, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, wrote in 2014 that "LARCs have been found, in practice, to be about forty times more effective than condoms and twenty times more effective than the pill at reducing the incidence of unplanned pregnancies." The key words here are "in practice." To be effective, the pill and condoms require nearly perfect planning, and human beings are far from perfect. In Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage, Isabel V. Among the factors leading to this dramatic reduction was the promotion by Region 6 of the Louisiana Office of Public Health of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), such as intrauterine devices and arm implants. The rate for the United States as a whole is 6 per thousand, so this region went from having 50 percent more infant deaths per thousand live births to a number about 22 percent lower than that of the country as a whole. ![]() ![]() Mattie Quinn, Governing's health and human services reporter, wrote recently about how in just two years a rural region of Louisiana cut its infant-mortality rate in half, from 9 deaths for every thousand live births to just 4.7. ![]()
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