Xiana Bueno, Nana A Asamoah, Kathryn J LaRoche, Barbara Dennis, Brandon L Crawford, Ronna C Turner, Wen-Juo Lo, Kristen N Jozkowski
Research examining the extent that people's attitudes toward abortion vary across the life course is mixed. Some studies do not show a strong relationship between abortion attitudes and life stage, while others do find strong associations in both directions-older age associated with both more and less favorable attitudes toward legal abortion. Taken together, these findings suggest that individual attitudes toward abortion are static for some but malleable for others. Little is known about the prevalence, reasons, and directionality of attitude changes...
September 2023: Advances in Life Course Research