Physicians, demographers, and epidemiologists often approach family planning as an issue of comparative risk and effectiveness of various contraceptive methods. But as the statistician Christopher Tietze (1908--84) wrote in the 1950s, any contraceptive approach succeeds only if it is use-effective---one which individual women (and men) find appropriate for use within their own lives. This idea, of course, has very different connotations in the developed countries of the world, where contraceptives are marketed products, and in developing countries, where they are often made available through government population control programmes. Let us consider a few historical instances from the USA in the mid-20th century that cast some light on the way women responded to using contraceptives.
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