The reproductive trends within the family in the city of Manzanillo, Granma Province, Cuba

Abstract

This work pretends to make a relation between the families’ social economic life conditions with the reproductive behavior of women inserted at homes. Facts as the head of household color skin, occupation, studies, parental relationship whit the woman who he lives, and more, it makes some importance explicative elements. The different in the families’ social economic life conditions could be put outside the gender differences and also the knowledge about reproductive health between women. Another fact that can give explications about younger women behavior is the number of stable couples and parents children had in other relationships, what could be a tentative to value the intergenerational gap in this aspect. The work is based in a study of resident younger women case in the city of Manzanillo, Province of Granma, Cuba. The selection judgment was base in took those pregnant women that were in programmed obstetric consults between March and June of 2011. Two instruments were use to capture information, one referred the reproductive history and other for the homes social economic conditions.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/pdac.v8i0.918

Revista Población y Desarrollo: Argonautas y Caminantes, Vol. 8, 2012 pp.37-49