CLASS WORK: Room 101 reseach

Group one - Pregnancy, Birth Control, Abortion, Adoption

1. What percentage of men use contracptives (Condoms)?
Use within marriage. An estimated 44 million married couples use condoms for family planningThe estimate of 6 to 9 billion condoms used worldwide each year is based partly on surveys of actual use and also assumes that, of the 8 to 10 billion condoms produced each year, 10% to 20% are never used.
(http://www.infoforhealth.org/pr/h9/h9chap1_1.shtml)

2. What is the average age of birth?
Women in the United States are waiting longer to have children, health statistics show, presenting challenges for doctors and patients alike. More than 586,000 babies were born to women over age 35 in 2004. That's just over 14 percent of births that year, up from about 5 percent 15 years ago. The average age of women when they gave birth for the first time was at a record high of 25.2 in 2003, the CDC said. That age has increased by nearly four years since 1970.
(http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/21/later.childbirth/index.html)

3.what is the most common form of birth control?
Women prefer to use the pill ahead of other forms of contraceptive according to a new survey by the Office for National Statistics. In 2007/08, three-quarters of women in the 16-49 age group reported using some form of contraception, with 28 per cent of women using the pill, compared with 24 per cent who relied on the male condom. One quarter of women said they did not use any form of contraception in 2007/08, with the most common reason being that they were not in a heterosexual relationship (14 per cent). Three percent said they were not using contraceptives because they wanted to become pregnant.
(office for National Statistics www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/csh1008.pd)

4. Percentage of Adoption in the united states?
Adoption in the United States is the legal act of adoption, of permanently placing a person under the age of 18 with a parent or parents other than the birth parents in the United States. The 2000 census was the first census in which adoption statistics were collected. The number of children awaiting adoption dropped from 132,000 to 118,000 during the period 2000 to 2004 USA Adoption Chart.In fiscal year 2001, 50,703 foster children were adopted in the United States, many by their foster parents or relatives of their biological parents.
(wikipedia)

5. what is the percentage of teen pregnancy? How has it changed?
The birth rate rose by 3 percent between 2005 and 2006 among 15-to-19-year-old girls, after plummeting 34 percent between 1991 and 2005, the National Center for Health Statistics reported.
LOOK AT LINK FOR GRAPH: http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2007/12/06/GR2007120600072.gif

Group 2- Medical technigues and technology of birth

6. What percentage of woman die of Childbirth?
women are dying from childbirth at the highest rate in decades, new government figures show. Though the risk of death is very small, experts believe increasing maternal obesity and a jump in Caesarean sections are partly to blame. The U.S. maternal mortality rate rose to 13 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2004, according to statistics released this week by the National Center for Health Statistics. The rate was 12 per 100,000 live births in 2003 — the first time the maternal death rate rose above 10 since 1977.
(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20427256/)

7. What is the percentage of male babies who are circumcised?
Between 2001 and 2003, the percentage of male infants who were circumcised in the hospital decreased from 63 percent to 56 percent, the lowest percentage recorded since 1979. Between 1979 and 2001, the percentage of male infants who were circumcised in the hospital remained relatively constant, ranging between 59 percent and 65 percent. However, between 2001 and 2003, the percentage of male infants circumcised decreased from 63 percent to 56 percent. he percentage of male newborns in the western region of the United States receiving circumcisions has significantly decreased, from 64 percent in 1979 to 31 percent in 2003. This decrease may be reflective of an increase in the proportion of births to Hispanics, who have been found to be less likely to receive circumcisions than are white and black male infants.
(http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/indicators/85MaleCircumcision.cfm)