The global trend towards smaller families is a reflection of people making reproductive choices to have as few or as many children as they want, when they want.

Com o objetivo de identificar com quem adolescentes compartilhavam informações e diálogos sobre sexualidade, foram entrevistados, em 2002, 383 adolescentes de 15 a 19 anos de idade, matriculados em uma unidade de saúde da família da zona leste do município de São Paulo.

A new policy brief from the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), Youth in a Global World, describes what it's like to grow up in today's world, with a special focus on four major experiences in the lives of young people: schooling, health, marriage, and childbearing.