The beginnings of family limitation in the three towns of the Sudan

The aim of the thesis is to study the changes that have occurred at the beginning of family limitation in the Three Towns (Khartoum, Khartoum North and Omdurman) of the Sudan, especially in fertility and the adoption of contraception. It is found that although the fertility of women in the Three Towns is still high, the Towns are witnessing the emergence of fertility differentials between groups at different levels of modernization. The wife’s education and the practice of the wife accompanying her husband to public entertainments have the strongest relationship to the number of children ever bom. The level of acceptance of family planning is also high. With the extension of education and the spread of mass communications, changes in family relationships appear to be inevitable. These lead to the modem nuclear family in which egalitarian relationships in decisionmaking prevail. The lower fertility observed among those in egalitarian marriages is a forerunner of fertility transition in the Three Towns.

Author dc:creator

• Richard, Joseph

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en

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b1274320

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oai:openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au:1885/123348