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Most women in the West use contraception in order to avoid having children. But in rural sub-saharan Africa many women use it to have more children. This study of aging & reproduction makes use of ethnographic & demographic data.Caroline H. Bledsoe is the author of 'Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa (Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series)', published 2002 under ISBN 9780226058511 and ISBN 0226058514.
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