| Abstract: | Sexual activity and family planning practice in the general Danish society and in Danish communes were examined. Denmark has a sexually active population which practices effective and consistent family planning and which has an impressively low abortion level. Effective methods of contraception - especially IUDs and the pill - are known and practiced by all socioeconomic classes in Danish society. Denmark's steadily falling birthrate is due to: 1) a liberal attitude toward sex and procreation, 2) an effective and early system of sex education in the schools, and 3) available and reasonably priced contraceptive methods. Sexual and family planning practices in Danish communes are similar to those in the general society. Most pregnancies in the communes are not accidental and most would not end in abortion. The sexual attitudes and practices in the communes are influenced by the general society. |
