Fertility after natural disaster: Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua

Davis, Jason

doi:10.1007/s11111-017-0271-5

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“…On this basis, as a result of high-mortality events, the fear and trauma of loss have demonstrated to motivate higher fertility, after an initial births decline [21,22]. Accordingly, our Italian insight reflects that the sense of existential insecurity probably will justify higher fertility in the future of COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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confidence: 67%

Desire for parenthood at the time of COVID-19 pandemic: an insight into the Italian situation

Micelli

Cito

Cocci

et al. 2020

Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology

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Purpose: To evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic lifestyle change on couples of reproductive age and on their desire for parenthood. Materials and methods: A quantitative correlational research study, based on a web survey, was conducted among Italian men and women in heterosexual stable relationships, aged between 18 and 46 years. The self-administered Italian version questionnaire was created using Google Forms and posted on chats and social networks.The mood of participants before and during the quarantine was assessed using a scale from 1 to 10 (1 ¼ no wellbeing; 10 ¼ total wellbeing). Couples' quality of life and their reproductive desire were evaluated. Results: 1482 respondents were included: 944 women (63.7%) and 538 men (36.3%). A significant trend toward reduced mean wellbeing scores during the quarantine, compared to before, was found (p < .01). From 18.1% participants who were planning to have a child before the pandemic, 37.3% abandoned the intention, related to worries of future economic difficulties (58%) and consequences on pregnancy (58%). Of 81.9% who did not intend to conceive, 11.5% revealed a desire for parenthood during quarantine than before (p < .01), related to will for change (50%) and need for positivity (40%). 4.3% of these actually tried to get pregnant. Stratifying by age, a trend toward older ages was found in the desire for parenthood before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (p < .05). Conclusions: COVID-19 pandemic is impacting on the desire for parenthood. It is unknown whether these findings will result in a substantial modification of birth rate in the near future. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 67%

Desire for parenthood at the time of COVID-19 pandemic: an insight into the Italian situation

Micelli

Cito

Cocci

et al. 2020

Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology

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“…Much of this literature centers on the relationships between disasters, such as hurricanes, and fertility. Some studies find that hurricanes are associated with increased births in the years following the event, potentially as a result of losing access to contraceptives or couples becoming more closely attached during the course of a disaster (Cohan & Cole, 2002;J. Davis, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although studies examining fertility-hurricane relationships differ in the directionality of the effects they find, authors which examined births several years following a disaster find that the fertility rate generally reverts back to pre-disaster levels well after the event, and the effects of the hurricane do not appear to have long-term impacts on fertility (J. Davis, 2017;Pörtner, 2008). Other studies exploring fertility changes in the aftermath of disasters not related to climate change find that, following events with high levels of child mortality, fertility often rises among parents who have lost children as a result of these disasters, such as after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami (Nobles et al, 2015), the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake (Carta et al, 2012), and the 2008 Sichuan earthquake (Qin, Luo, Li, Wang, & Li, 2009).…”

Section: Birthsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Earlier research exploring relationships between climate change and fertility has focused largely on the impact of acute disasters such as hurricanes in relation to births (J. Davis, 2017;Pörtner, 2008) or on the impacts of crop loss from climate shocks on births and family planning use (Alam & Pörtner, 2018;Kim & Prskawetz, 2010), generally over short time periods. This literature suggests that fertility responses vary widely, with increases or decreases in births reported depending on local social and environmental contexts.…”

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Climate shocks constrain human fertility in Indonesia

Sellers

Gray

2019

World Development

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Climate change is likely to induce a large range of household-and individual-level responses, including changes in human fertility behaviors and outcomes. These responses may have important implications for human and economic development and women's empowerment. Drawing on the literature linking climate conditions to rice cultivation in Indonesia, we use longitudinal household survey and high-resolution climate data to explore changes in childbearing intentions, family planning use, and births following community-level climate shocks from 1993 to 2015. We find that fertility intentions increase and family planning use declines in response to delays in monsoon onset occurring within the previous year, particularly for wealthier populations. However, women on farms are significantly more likely to use family planning and less likely to give birth following abnormally high temperatures during the previous five years. We also measure parallel shifts in household well-being as measured by rice, food, and non-food consumption expenditures. Our findings advance the environmental fertility literature by showing that longer duration environmental shocks can have impacts on fertility behaviors and outcomes. Collectively, our results illustrate human fertility responses to climate change in a country vulnerable to its effects, and demonstrate that in some cases, climate shocks can constrain human fertility.

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“…On the other hand, some studies claim that a high preference for a large family is due to poor environmental conditions (AXINN & GHIMIRE, 2002;FOSTER & ROSENZWEIG, 2003). Several posthurricane fertility studies in the United States reveal that fertility both increases and decreases after strong storm events (DAVIS, 2017;COHAN & COLE, 2002; EVANS ET AL., 2010; HAMILTON ET AL., 2009). Another earthquake study on the 2003 earthquake in Bam in south-central Iran found a decrease in the local fertility rate in 2004, followed by a rise in the fertility rate in 2006-2007 (HOSSEINI CHAVOSHI & ABBASI-SHAVAZI, 2015).…”

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Underlying causes and the impacts of disaster events (floods) on fertility decision in rural Bangladesh

Haq

2018

Environmental &Amp; Socio-Economic Studies

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The study attempts to uncover how people living in vulnerable areas address the relationship between the impacts of extreme weather events (floods) and fertility preference. The study selected a village, Sharat Pur from Sunamganj District, which is highly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of flooding. The study gathered information from 158 respondents by using a semi-structured questionnaire and in-depth interviews. With the small sample size the study used descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis. Findings show that there is still a preference for more sons to recover the damage caused from the impacts of floods. However, people think having a large family is a burden. They emphasize controlling family size through family planning programs and do not take into account the risk of children dying affecting their desire to have additional children. Therefore they consider having more children especially sons as a gift from God and the occurrence of flood events as the wish of God. The intention of the study is not to generalize findings but to comprehend the underlying mechanism between disaster events and fertility behavior. The study collected information from a very small sample size. Future studies might consider a large sample size and explore more deeply the mechanism between the different disaster events and fertility decisions by using a comparative analysis between regions vulnerable to different extreme weather events and not vulnerable to extreme weather events within Bangladesh, and comparing Bangladesh with other South Asian countries.

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Fertility after natural disaster: Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua

Cited by 45 publications

References 35 publications

Desire for parenthood at the time of COVID-19 pandemic: an insight into the Italian situation

Desire for parenthood at the time of COVID-19 pandemic: an insight into the Italian situation

Climate shocks constrain human fertility in Indonesia

Underlying causes and the impacts of disaster events (floods) on fertility decision in rural Bangladesh

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