Abstract
Women high in alienation may in a sense be victimized by a higher probability of having unwanted pregnancies than women low in alienation. From this perspective high alienation may be concomitant with a sense of (at most) going through the motions of family planning with a rather low confidence that ones ability will suffice to achieve the desired goal and a tendency therefore not to be particularly involved in the mechanisms of family planning. High alienation in its separate and combined aspects may constitute a highly salient social psychological obstacle of the probability of acting with confidence in the emotionally charged area of fertility and family planning behavior. The major control relevant implication is that ineffective family planning may derive not only from lack of knowledge or of access to methods but also from the social psychological inaccessibility of knowledge generating a dominance of emotional over rational elements in the decision making process. (authors)
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