Editing Spouse (section)

==Procreation==
In Western countries, spouses sometimes [[Childfree|choose not to have children]]. In some parts of the world, there is greater expectations that heterosexual couples will procreate, such is the case in [[northern Ghana]]. For example, the payment of  the bride signifies a woman's requirement to bear children, and women using [[birth control]] are at risks of threats and coercion.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Bawah | first1 = Ayaga Agula | last2 = Akweongo | first2 = Patricia | last3 = Simmons | first3 = Ruth | last4 = Phillips | first4 = James F. | title = Women's fears and men's anxieties: the impact of family planning on gender relations in Northern Ghana | journal = [[Studies in Family Planning]] | volume = 30 | issue = 1 | pages = 54&ndash;66 | publisher = [[Wiley-Blackwell|Wiley]] on behalf of the [[Population Council]] | date = 1999 | doi = 10.1111/j.1728-4465.1999.00054.x | pmid = 10216896 | hdl = 2027.42/73927 | url = https://www.popcouncil.org/research/womens-fears-and-mens-anxieties-the-impact-of-family-planning-on-gender-rel | hdl-access = free | access-date = 2017-12-23 | archive-date = 2019-11-23 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191123123341/https://www.popcouncil.org/research/womens-fears-and-mens-anxieties-the-impact-of-family-planning-on-gender-rel | url-status = dead }} [http://www.popcouncil.org/uploads/pdfs/councilarticles/sfp/SFP301Bawah.pdf Pdf.]</ref>