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- Title
The Maternity Home. Present Services and Future Roles.
- Authors
Wallace, Helen M.; Gold, Edwin M.; Goldstein, Hyman; Oglesby, Allan C.
- Abstract
The article examines maternity homes, their services, their facilities, and their future role in obstetrical and gynecological services in the U.S. In the late eighteen-hundreds and early and middle nineteen-hundreds, maternity homes played an important role in providing shelter and care for unmarried pregnant girls and women in this country. Since the nineteen-sixties, with the change in sexual mores and the increase in out-of-wedlock pregnancy, alternate services have been developed in large, local communities to begin to meet the needs of girls and women pregnant out-of-wedlock.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MATERNITY homes; HOSPITAL maternity services; UNMARRIED mothers; HOSPITAL utilization; BIRTHS to unmarried women; PREGNANCY; MATERNAL health services; WOMEN'S health services
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 1974, Vol 64, Issue 6, p568
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.64.6.568