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Title: | Marital Sexual Relationships and Birth Spacing among Two Yoruba Sub-Groups |
Author: | Adeokun, Lawrence A. |
Year: | 1982 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 52 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 1-14 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | Yoruba family planning breastfeeding Women's Issues Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1160091 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1982-052-00-000002 |
Abstract: | This article is about the marital sexual relationships and birth spacing among two Yoruba sub-groups, the Ekiti and Ikale. It is argued that the similarity in birth spacing among the two groups, derived from contrasting attitudes to post-partum abstinence, is evidence of explicit decision on the timing of the next child. Chapters: 1) The Ekiti and Ikale of Yorubaland (the Ekiti - the Ikale). 2) Differences in fertility, family formation and marital sexual relationships (post-partum sexual attitudes - breast-feeding duration - who terminates breast-feeding? - reasons for terminating breastfeeding - physical growth and the timing of the next child - participation of kin and in-laws in the next-child decision). 3) Prospects and implications. Ref., tab., French sum. |