Fertility intention of tsunami affected women in India

Kanagasabai Jothy, Annamalai University
Sabarathinam Kalaiselvi, Annamalai University

Researching Reproductive Behaviour of women is one of the potentially difficult areas as it is open to all sorts of misunderstandings and objections. The reproductive behavior of women is also much influenced by the natural calamities like Famine, Floods, Earth quake, and Tsunami. Many women also lost their lives in their attempts to save their children and elderly relatives who were with them at the time. Reports show that the tsunami killed more women than men in the worst affected districts. It is, in this context, an attempt has been made to study the fertility behavior of the women in the Tsunami affected areas of Chidambaram, Tamilnadu. The present study aimed at exploring the Reproductive behavior and fertility intention of women affected by Tsunami in the Coastal villages of South India by obtaining information with the help of an interview schedule.