Latin American attitudes on birth control: a typology.

A survey of Honduran elites consisting of 300 government business industrial and professional leaders and 400 university students was undertaken to determine the sources of negative and positive influences on birth control in order to outline a typology of opinions covering the entire range of attidues toward this issue. Major sources of negative influence are the Roman Catholic Church political parties and the universities. The support of this issue is also encountered along the entire political spectrum mainly the centralist and rightist positions with the most vocal support coming from the Family Planning Association. The paper describes the view of the various groups and then arranges the elites opinions on birth control into a typology.