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Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa (Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series) (1st Edition) by Caroline H. Bledsoe, Fatoumatta Banja, Anthony T. Carter Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2002 ISBN-10: 0-226-05852-2 / 0226058522 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05852-8 / 9780226058528 Most women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural Gambia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, many women use contraceptives for the opposite reason - to have as many children as possible. Using ethnographic and demographic data from a three-year study in rur |