Discussion on reading for week 3

I think it would be interesting to evaluate men's perceptions about family planning and reproductive health (in populations that usually are opposed to using contraception). I understand and agree that it can be unfair to automatically label all men as barriers. However, in my experience (which I know is not representative of all Mexico) I would feel that in some situations I would be leaving women vulnerable if their partners were in the room when as physicians we explain contraceptive methods. There a lot of gender issues and in some cases women don't want to get pregnant anymore but they are afraid that their partner will find out and that will have economic/physical/emotional consequences. Of course this is not all women, but I would be concerned about this population, since I think changing this way of thinking that has been part of a normalized cultural behavior could take a generation/generations to change. I wonder what approaches could be used in this populations so they are not left vulnerable, but we also engage men.