sexuality and reproduction
type: Concept
narrower: contraception

birth control
type: Concept
narrower: contraception

contraception
type: Concept
broader: family planning
broader: birth control
broader: sexuality and reproduction
broader: sexuality and sex
broader: population and environment
definition: Contraception refers to the numerous methods and devices used to prevent conception and pregnancy. For millennia, women and men have relied on such folk and medical methods as condoms, herbs, vaginal suppositories, douching, and magic rituals and potions—along with abortion and infanticide—as means to control the birth of children. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Problems; Contraception]
narrower: emergency contraception
narrower: coitus interruptus
narrower: contraceptive methods

family planning
type: Concept
narrower: contraception

sexuality and sex
type: Concept
narrower: contraception

population and environment
type: Concept
narrower: contraception

emergency contraception
type: Concept
broader: contraception

coitus interruptus
type: Concept
broader: contraception

contraceptive methods
type: Concept
broader: contraception

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: contraception