Women add contraception to wedding plans
Family planning and birth control are being added to "something borrowed and something blue" when brides are making their wedding and honeymoon plans, a recent national survey shows.
The Wedding and Family Planning Survey, sponsored by pharmaceutical manufacturer Parke-Davis in Morris Plains, NJ, gathered information from 3,200 women: 1,600 brides-to-be and 1,600 mothers of brides. The survey revealed that two-thirds of prospective brides include contraceptive planning on their wedding and honeymoon lists, as opposed to less than half of the prospective brides in their mothers' generation.
Nearly three-quarters of the women surveyed said their partners' opinions about their birth control choice were important, and more than half of all brides said they did, or would, choose their contraceptive method jointly with their partners.
"The results of the survey show that birth control and issues surrounding birth control have become a very relevant topic of discussion among people getting married," says company spokesman Jeffrey Baum. "I think this survey recognizes the fact that birth control is more and more a topic of conversation, not only involving the woman herself, but also involving the groom."
Women also are consulting their mothers on contraceptive choices. Almost half of the brides surveyed said they would follow their mothers' recommendations.
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