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Sarah Hayford, Assistant Professor
T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics
Email: Sarah.Hayford@asu.edu
My research focuses primarily on childbearing, looking at both
intentions and behavior. That is, I analyze whether and when people
want to have children, and then assess how well they are able to
carry out their desires. In the United States, I’ve studied
how plans for childbearing evolve over the life course as well
as the situations in which women have children that they haven’t
planned. I’m also involved in a project in Mozambique examining
the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on plans for future childbearing.
More
broadly, I’m interested in family and reproductive
behavior as an indicator of social change. For example, I’ve
analyzed changing patterns of childlessness in the United States
and variation in the acceptability of cohabitation as a setting
for having children. I’ve also studied changes in the prevalence
of female genital cutting in different countries in sub-Saharan
Africa.
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