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The Influence Of Contraception, Abortion, And Natural Family Planning On Divorce Rates As Found In The 2006–2010 National Survey Of Family Growth, Richard Jerome Fehring

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of contraception, abortion, and natural family planning (NFP) on divorce rates of US women of reproductive age. The variables of importance of religion and frequency of church attendance were also included in the analysis. The study involved 5,530 reproductive age women in the (2006–2010) National Survey of Family Growth who indicate that they were ever married. Among the women who ever used NFP only 9.6 percent were currently divorced compared with the 14.4 percent who were currently divorced among the women who never used NFP (x² = 5.34, …