Re: Percentage of couples using NFP

[Guest guest]

The Guttmacher Institute, citing Mosher WD et al., Use of contraception and use of family planning services in the United States: 1982-2002, Advance Data from Vital and Health Statistics, No. 350. 2004, estimates that there are 133,000 users of Natural Family Planning, or 0.4 percent of the U.S. population. Three times as many couples (1.2 percent) still use calendar rhythm. See

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_contr_use.html

Bower

Percentage of couples using NFP

Hi everyone

A young woman who is writing a paper asked me if I knew the percentage of people using NFP.

Does anyone have a quick response to this?

Thanks,

Lepak, Associate Director Office of Family Life~Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Natural Family Planning Practitioner -CoordinatorProject ~ for crisis pregnancy help Project ~s Vineyard Healing After Abortion PO BOX 32180 OKC OK 73123 x 107 susanlepak@...

[Guest guest]

The number “0.4%”, I believe,

is a bit tricky to quote since it is based not on total US population, nor

total female US population, nor total fertile-aged female US population, but the

89% of the 42M fertile, sexually active women who practice contraception

according to Mosher WD et al.

•

Among the 42 million fertile, sexually active women who do not want to become

pregnant, 89% are practicing contraception. 8

•

64% of reproductive-age women who practice contraception use reversible

methods, such as oral contraceptives or condoms. The remaining women rely on

female or male sterilization. 9

I think it is an important distinction to make when we answer

the question how many people use NFP. Does the 133,000 NFP users seem low to

anyone else?

Damon Owens

Percentage of couples using NFP

Hi everyone

A young woman who is writing

a paper asked me if I knew the percentage of people using NFP.

Does anyone have a quick

response to this?

Thanks,

Lepak, Associate Director

Office of

Family Life~Archdiocese of Oklahoma City

Natural

Family Planning Practitioner -Coordinator

Project

~ for crisis pregnancy help

Project

~s Vineyard Healing After Abortion

PO

BOX 32180 OKC OK 73123

405

721 5651 x 107 susanlepak@...

[Guest guest]

The 0.4% is based on those women who responded to "ever" using NFP methods including rhythm. The rate for mucus and temp NFP methods is more like 0.2% when the women respondents answered to "current" use of NFP methods. The rates are based upon a random selection of US women who are between 15-44 years of age -- the years of the highes fertility potential.

J. Fehring

Professor

Marquette University

From: nfpprofessionals [mailto:nfpprofessionals ] On Behalf Of RCAN NFP OfficeSent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 2:41 PMTo: nfpprofessionals Subject: RE: Percentage of couples using NFP

The number “0.4%”, I believe, is a bit tricky to quote since it is based not on total US population, nor total female US population, nor total fertile-aged female US population, but the 89% of the 42M fertile, sexually active women who practice contraception according to Mosher WD et al.

• Among the 42 million fertile, sexually active women who do not want to become pregnant, 89% are practicing contraception. 8

• 64% of reproductive-age women who practice contraception use reversible methods, such as oral contraceptives or condoms. The remaining women rely on female or male sterilization. 9

I think it is an important distinction to make when we answer the question how many people use NFP. Does the 133,000 NFP users seem low to anyone else?

Damon Owens

Percentage of couples using NFP

Hi everyone

A young woman who is writing a paper asked me if I knew the percentage of people using NFP.

Does anyone have a quick response to this?

Thanks,

Lepak, Associate Director Office of Family Life~Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Natural Family Planning Practitioner -CoordinatorProject ~ for crisis pregnancy help Project ~s Vineyard Healing After Abortion PO BOX 32180 OKC OK 73123 x 107 susanlepak@...

[Guest guest]

What strikes me about these low numbers, is the huge impact that could

be made among the culture of women in this age group with an

intervention that would increase this. We have been teaching NFP in

conjunction with the parishes for marriage preparation in this area for

a long time now. It is tempting to get discouraged when couples do not

adopt the method. However, just imagine what a huge impact it is if we

can get even 1 in every 10 couples to adopt this method of family

planning for the long term.

Fehring, wrote:

Message

The 0.4% is based on those women

who responded to "ever" using NFP methods including rhythm. The rate

for mucus and temp NFP methods is more like 0.2% when the women

respondents answered to "current" use of NFP methods. The rates are

based upon a random selection of US women who are between 15-44 years

of age -- the years of the highes fertility potential.

J. Fehring

Professor

Marquette University

From:

nfpprofessionals

[mailto:nfpprofessionals ] On Behalf Of RCAN

NFP Office

Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 2:41 PM

To: nfpprofessionals

Subject: RE: Percentage of couples using NFP

The number

“0.4%”, I believe, is a bit tricky to quote since it is based not on

total US population, nor total female US population, nor total

fertile-aged female US population, but the 89% of the 42M fertile,

sexually active women who practice contraception according to Mosher WD

et al.

• Among the 42 million fertile, sexually

active women who do not want to become pregnant, 89% are practicing

contraception. 8

• 64% of reproductive-age women who practice

contraception use reversible methods, such as oral contraceptives or

condoms. The remaining women rely on female or male sterilization. 9

I think it

is an important distinction to make when we answer the question how

many people use NFP. Does the 133,000 NFP users seem low to anyone else?

Damon

Owens

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From: nfpprofessionals [mailto:nfpprofessionals ] On Behalf Of Bower

Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 12:34 PM

To: nfpprofessionals

Subject: RE:

Percentage of couples using NFP

The Guttmacher

Institute, citing Mosher WD et al., Use of contraception and use of

family planning services in the United States: 1982-2002, Advance Data

from Vital and Health Statistics, No. 350. 2004, estimates that there

are 133,000 users of Natural Family Planning, or 0.4 percent

of the U.S. population. Three times as many couples (1.2 percent) still

use calendar rhythm. See

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_contr_use.html

Bower

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From:

nfpprofessionals

[mailto:nfpprofessionals ] On Behalf Of Lepak

Sent: Tuesday, April

04, 2006 11:30 AM

To: NFP DISCUSSION

Subject:

Percentage of couples using NFP

Hi everyone

A young woman who

is writing a paper asked me if I knew the percentage of people using

NFP.

Does anyone have

a quick response to this?

Thanks,

Lepak, Associate Director

Office

of Family Life~Archdiocese of Oklahoma City

Natural

Family Planning Practitioner -Coordinator

Project ~ for crisis

pregnancy help

Project ~s Vineyard

Healing After Abortion

PO BOX 32180 OKC OK 73123

x 107

susanlepak@...

[Guest guest]

And that, , is why we have a program for teens, to get them excited about possessing fertility before they learn to isolate it out of their self-understanding with the current modalities...

Hanna Klaus, M.D.

Natural Family Planning Center of Wash. D.C. and Teen STAR Program

8514 Bradmoor Drive

Bethesda, MD 20817-3810

Tel. , ®

hannaklaus@..., hklaus@...

http://www.teenstarprogram.org

Re: Percentage of couples using NFP

What strikes me about these low numbers, is the huge impact that could be made among the culture of women in this age group with an intervention that would increase this. We have been teaching NFP in conjunction with the parishes for marriage preparation in this area for a long time now. It is tempting to get discouraged when couples do not adopt the method. However, just imagine what a huge impact it is if we can get even 1 in every 10 couples to adopt this method of family planning for the long term.Fehring, wrote:

[Guest guest]

Oh how right Dr Klaus is ! As she knows I have had little to no success in getting a teen program of any kind going. But I do alot of Marriage Prep work. Last night I did private follow-up sessions with 5 couples.. One was married in their 40's with 3 kids learning because of RCIA. using the method and pretty happy but " afraid of fertility at this age". all four others were "afraid" ( their own words) for one reason or the other. I am so tempted to put a slide of JPII in my program with the big words "DO NOT BE AFRAID" The best gift NFP ever gave me was the knowledge of my body and the ability to use that knowledg to handle physical problems without fear. We really have no trust in God at this point in our world. And hormonal contraception feeds into that fear very successfully. I ,for one, would be much more afraid of the cancer links and other side effects than I would be of a baby.. but the "medicine has all the answers" crowd still hold too much power over women. Around here even TeenStar is too late as parents put the kids on contraceptives as close to 1st menes as possible.

Well , I go back for 5 more couples tonight. Could you all pray that atleast one or two will not be afraid.

Peace MT

-- Therese Egizio, RN Website: http://www.webspawner.com/users/nfpli99/index.html "Too often have sins against humanity been justified in the name of 'justice' to women. Too often have we heard women claim to be working for 'women's rights,' when they are actually working for 'women's wrongs.'" Helen Hull Hitchcock

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What strikes me about these low numbers, is the huge impact that could be made among the culture of women in this age group with an intervention that would increase this. We have been teaching NFP in conjunction with the parishes for marriage preparation in this area for a long time now. It is tempting to get discouraged when couples do not adopt the method. However, just imagine what a huge impact it is if we can get even 1 in every 10 couples to adopt this method of family planning for the long term.Fehring, wrote:

[Guest guest]

I turned a Lutheran friend on to NFP and

she was also very “afraid” in the beginning…but she became so

confident of her charting, her regular cycles, and the method after just maybe

6 months or so that she is no longer (she’s been using it for a year

since her son was born). I always just say “if you’re really

afraid at first, play it safe and abstain if you are unsure. It’ll

be a relatively short period of time before you are more sure of yourselves and

the method, and it will be worth it in the long run!”

Kim

Re:

Percentage of couples using NFP

Oh how right Dr Klaus is !

As she knows I have had little to no success in getting a teen program of any

kind going. But I do alot of Marriage Prep work. Last night I did private

follow-up sessions with 5 couples.. One was married in their 40's with 3

kids learning because of RCIA. using the method and pretty happy but "

afraid of fertility at this age " . all four others were " afraid "

( their own words) for one reason or the other. I am so tempted to put a

slide of JPII in my program with the big words " DO NOT BE

AFRAID " The best gift NFP ever gave me was the knowledge of my body

and the ability to use that knowledg to handle physical problems without fear.

We really have no trust in God at this point in our world. And hormonal

contraception feeds into that fear very successfully. I ,for one, would be much

more afraid of the cancer links and other side effects than I would be of a

baby.. but the " medicine has all the answers " crowd still hold too

much power over women. Around here even TeenStar is too late as parents put the

kids on contraceptives as close to 1st menes as possible.

Well , I go back for 5 more

couples tonight. Could you all pray that atleast one or two will not be afraid.

Peace MT

--

Therese Egizio, RN

Website:

http://www.webspawner.com/users/nfpli99/index.html

" Too often have sins against humanity been justified in the name of

'justice' to women. Too often have we heard women claim to be working for

'women's rights,' when they are actually working for 'women's wrongs.' "

Helen Hull Hitchcock

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And that, , is

why we have a program for teens, to get them excited about possessing

fertility before they learn to isolate it out of their self-understanding with

the current modalities...

Hanna Klaus, M.D.

Natural Family Planning

Center of Wash. D.C. and Teen STAR Program

8514 Bradmoor Drive

Bethesda, MD 20817-3810

Tel. ,

®

hannaklaus@..., hklaus@...

http://www.teenstarprogram.org

Re:

Percentage of couples using NFP

What strikes me about these low numbers, is the huge

impact that could be made among the culture of women in this age group with an

intervention that would increase this. We have been teaching NFP in

conjunction with the parishes for marriage preparation in this area for a long

time now. It is tempting to get discouraged when couples do not adopt the

method. However, just imagine what a huge impact it is if we can get even

1 in every 10 couples to adopt this method of family planning for the long

term.

Fehring, wrote:

[Guest guest]

It may be .2% of women of childbearing age

rather than all women.

Percentage of couples using NFP

Getting back to the

question of how many women couples in the US use modern methods of

NFP.

I am a tad

confused. Damon Owens asked if the 133,000 figure seems to

low. I thought not -- since I was corrected in a manuscript I sent to the

Journal Contraception and they (the reveiwers) correct the figure I gave to

124,000. And Bower cites the Guttmacher Institute -- that cites the

Vital Statistics data from the Natural Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) and provides

a figure of 133,000. I am currently reviewing another report from

the NSFG from the CDC - Vital and Health Statistics Series 23, Numver 25,

December --Fertility, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health of US

Women: Data From the 2002 NSFG. You can download the report

yourself: see: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/series/sr23/pre-1/pre-1.htm

If you look at Table 56:

they list the number and precent for all contraceptive methods. As

reported before, NFP = 0.2% of the total. The total is 61,561,000 women

of reproductive age. The percentage of pill users is 19% which is

11,696,590 users in the US. The percentage of NFP users is 0.2%

of the total or (according to my math) 1,231,220 women. If you add

the .7% of women who report use of rhythm -- then the total of periodic

abstinence among US women is: 5,540,490 women.

So Damon -- the 133,000

figure cited is low -- unless my math is wrong!

J. Fehring

Professor of Nursing

Marquette University

[Guest guest]

My math was corrected by a Theologian ( ) --- I needed to carry over the figure one more decimal place. The total is 124,000.

Sorry for the confusion.

From: nfpprofessionals [mailto:nfpprofessionals ] On Behalf Of GuthmannSent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 4:16 PMTo: nfpprofessionals Subject: RE: Percentage of couples using NFP

It may be .2% of women of childbearing age rather than all women.

-----Original Message-----From: nfpprofessionals [mailto:nfpprofessionals ] On Behalf Of Fehring, Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 4:04 PMTo: nfpprofessionals Subject: Percentage of couples using NFP

Getting back to the question of how many women couples in the US use modern methods of NFP.

I am a tad confused. Damon Owens asked if the 133,000 figure seems to low. I thought not -- since I was corrected in a manuscript I sent to the Journal Contraception and they (the reveiwers) correct the figure I gave to 124,000. And Bower cites the Guttmacher Institute -- that cites the Vital Statistics data from the Natural Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) and provides a figure of 133,000. I am currently reviewing another report from the NSFG from the CDC - Vital and Health Statistics Series 23, Numver 25, December --Fertility, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health of US Women: Data From the 2002 NSFG. You can download the report yourself: see: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/series/sr23/pre-1/pre-1.htm

If you look at Table 56: they list the number and precent for all contraceptive methods. As reported before, NFP = 0.2% of the total. The total is 61,561,000 women of reproductive age. The percentage of pill users is 19% which is 11,696,590 users in the US. The percentage of NFP users is 0.2% of the total or (according to my math) 1,231,220 women. If you add the .7% of women who report use of rhythm -- then the total of periodic abstinence among US women is: 5,540,490 women.

So Damon -- the 133,000 figure cited is low -- unless my math is wrong!

J. Fehring

Professor of Nursing

Marquette University

[Guest guest]

, and all,

Unfortunately, I think your math is wrong. 0.2% of 61,561,000 women of reproductive age is 123,122. The multiplier is 0.002, not 0.2.

Mark Stegman, M.D.

Percentage of couples using NFP

Getting back to the question of how many women couples in the US use modern methods of NFP.

I am a tad confused. Damon Owens asked if the 133,000 figure seems to low. I thought not -- since I was corrected in a manuscript I sent to the Journal Contraception and they (the reveiwers) correct the figure I gave to 124,000. And Bower cites the Guttmacher Institute -- that cites the Vital Statistics data from the Natural Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) and provides a figure of 133,000. I am currently reviewing another report from the NSFG from the CDC - Vital and Health Statistics Series 23, Numver 25, December --Fertility, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health of US Women: Data From the 2002 NSFG. You can download the report yourself: see: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/series/sr23/pre-1/pre-1htm

If you look at Table 56: they list the number and precent for all contraceptive methods. As reported before, NFP = 0.2% of the total. The total is 61,561,000 women of reproductive age. The percentage of pill users is 19% which is 11,696,590 users in the US. The percentage of NFP users is 0.2% of the total or (according to my math) 1,231,220 women. If you add the .7% of women who report use of rhythm -- then the total of periodic abstinence among US women is: 5,540,490 women.

So Damon -- the 133,000 figure cited is low -- unless my math is wrong!

J. Fehring

Professor of Nursing

Marquette University