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Does father's unemployment put the fetus at risk?
Author(s) -
Golding Jean,
Thomas Peter,
Peters Tim
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1986.tb08055.x
Subject(s) - unemployment , singleton , demographic economics , social class , demography , pregnancy , psychology , economics , medicine , sociology , economic growth , biology , market economy , genetics
Summary. Information concerning 15037 singleton deliveries in 1970 showed that among the 3.5% where the male head of the household was unemployed there was no significant excess of low birthweight or pre‐term delivery, once social class had been taken into account. There were major differences, however, in maternal health behaviour. In order to ascertain whether the health behaviour might be a consequence of the unemployment, data were also analysed for the 658 pregnancies in women whose husbands, though employed at delivery, were subsequently unemployed. Almost identical patterns were found, implying that the association with health behaviour was not a time‐related consequence of unemployment.