Child-spacing in Tropical Africa: Traditions and Change.

This collection of papers by various authors focuses on the demographic consequences of current child-spacing patterns and trends in tropical Africa and on the socioeconomic and cultural environment that underpins traditional practices and differential changes in these practices. The most prevalent traditional practices namely prolonged breast-feeding and postpartum abstinence are discussed and shifts occurring as a result of modernization are analyzed. The book is based on studies conducted primarily in the 1970s. (ANNOTATION)