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Unintended pregnancies disproportionately occur among young women, yet little is known about the predictors of pregnancy intention among this group. Moreover, existing research on pregnancy intentions relies almost exclusively on one-dimensional measures of intent that are collected retrospectively or at wide intervals. In this article, we use a comprehensive baseline survey along with weekly reports of relationship status and fertility desires to answer the question, which unmarried 18-19 year-old women want to get pregnant? In addressing this question, we assess the extent to which teenage respondents desire a pregnancy, wish to avoid pregnancy, and report desire and avoidance attitudes that are consistent with one another. The results indicate that women who grew up on public assistance, are in an intimate relationship, and who are depressed are most likely to express pro-pregnancy intentions. Women who are highly religious, enrolled in post-secondary school, or working at a career-related job are more likely to express antipregnancy intentions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although parental effects on child wellbeing have been a common theme in social science literature, far less attention has been paid to children's impact on parents' health. In this study, I integrate theories of gender, socialization, and the life course to ask whether the sexual tendencies of fathers of firstborn adolescent sons are different from the sexual tendencies of fathers of firstborn adolescent daughters. To answer this question, I create a natural experiment observing the effect of the sex of firstborn offspring on fathers' sexual behavior and health, drawing on data from thirty-six Demographic and Health Surveys collected throughout the developing world.where STD rates remain substantially higher than elsewhere. The results suggest that compared to fathers with firstborn adolescent daughters, fathers with firstborn adolescent sons are more likely to report recent sexual activity and paying for sex, while less likely to report using condoms. Furthermore, fathers of adolescent sons are more likely to report having genital warts. Additional analyses reveal that the effects of offspring sex on fathers' sexual behavior and health are limited to the years in which a child is an adolescent and correspond with an effect of offspring sex on fathers' attitudes toward women's sexual autonomy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Migration studies in developing country setting have found that most migrants are seasonal works, rather than permanent migrants. In China, with the rigid household registration system that limits individuals' permanent change of residence, temporary migration is particularly prevalent as compared with permanent migration. However, with the massive wave of migration surging since the early 1980s, hardly any studies have systemtically differenciated the two types of migration, examined how determinants of migration differ for temporary versus permanent migration, and analyzed if the temporary migration would eventually become permanent. Also, while economic and job opportunities are much emphasized as the most important factors motivating migration, the influence of family demography is often ignored. Particularly in China, little is known about how migration interacts with the household structure change undergoing simultaneously, and how such interactions differ between temporary versus permanent migrations. Using the longitudinal CHNS data, we attempt at a preliminary analysis of the above questions. Applying discrete-time event history model, we find that previous migration experience and family demography significantly affect individual's temporary as well as permanent migration status, with individuals having previous migration experience being more likely to leave the household either temporarily or permanently. However, when we stratify the sample by gender, the significance of family demography on the two types of migration varies. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]