The Potential Impacts of Religion and Spirituality on First Nation Teenage Fertility
After reviewing some American research on the impacts religion has on adolescent sexual decision making and teenage pregnancy, this article considered the few instances of Canadian research addressing this topic. With this contextual information in place, it then moves on to report on analysis compa...
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ftunivwontaojs:oai:ojs.uwo.ca:article/7394 2023-05-15T16:15:24+02:00 The Potential Impacts of Religion and Spirituality on First Nation Teenage Fertility Fonda, Marc 2013-03-13 application/pdf https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/iipj/article/view/7394 eng eng Western University https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/iipj/article/view/7394/6038 https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/iipj/article/view/7394 Copyright (c) 2013 Marc Fonda https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND The International Indigenous Policy Journal; Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): Indigenous Early Parenthood International Indigenous Policy Journal; Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): Indigenous Early Parenthood 1916-5781 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion review-article 2013 ftunivwontaojs 2023-02-05T19:15:42Z After reviewing some American research on the impacts religion has on adolescent sexual decision making and teenage pregnancy, this article considered the few instances of Canadian research addressing this topic. With this contextual information in place, it then moves on to report on analysis comparing the 2001 Census figures on religions declared by Canadian First Nation communities to teen fertility rates and the Community Well-Being Index (CWB). It finds that First Nations teen fertility rates are related to relative socio-economic deprivation, but also that religion has impacts on sexual decision making at the individual level and those First Nations communities showing no major religious adherence have teenage fertility rates of up to 140 per 1000, as compared to those communities showing one major tradition whose fertility rates are closer to 109 per 1000 adolescent First Nation women. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Western Libraries OJS International Indigenous Policy Journal 4 1 |
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After reviewing some American research on the impacts religion has on adolescent sexual decision making and teenage pregnancy, this article considered the few instances of Canadian research addressing this topic. With this contextual information in place, it then moves on to report on analysis comparing the 2001 Census figures on religions declared by Canadian First Nation communities to teen fertility rates and the Community Well-Being Index (CWB). It finds that First Nations teen fertility rates are related to relative socio-economic deprivation, but also that religion has impacts on sexual decision making at the individual level and those First Nations communities showing no major religious adherence have teenage fertility rates of up to 140 per 1000, as compared to those communities showing one major tradition whose fertility rates are closer to 109 per 1000 adolescent First Nation women. |
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The Potential Impacts of Religion and Spirituality on First Nation Teenage Fertility |
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The Potential Impacts of Religion and Spirituality on First Nation Teenage Fertility |
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The Potential Impacts of Religion and Spirituality on First Nation Teenage Fertility |
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The International Indigenous Policy Journal; Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): Indigenous Early Parenthood International Indigenous Policy Journal; Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): Indigenous Early Parenthood 1916-5781 |
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