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Transnational Family Reseach Institute

The Transnational Family Research Institute (TFRI) is a nongovernmental and nonprofit research organization in the behavioral sciences with a focus on reproductive behavior. TFRI was founded in 1972 by psychologist Henry P. David, an early and distinguished leader in the field of reproductive health and freedom, at a time when rapid and profound social changes in reproductive laws and practices were taking place in America. Since then, TFRI has conducted theoretical and empirical research into a broad range of bio-psychosocial issues related to both individual and dyadic human reproductive behaviors. Successful grant and contract supported research within the broad area of family planning and reproductive decision-making has been both domestic and international.

Social and behavioral scientists have come to recognize Dr. David for his international leadership and TFRI for its excellence in the study of topics such as unwanted pregnancy, abortion, and fertility decision-making and its consequences. Dr. David is also co-founder and past Secretary-Treasurer of Population and Development International and co-founder with Warren Miller of the Psychosocial Workshop of the Population Association of America.

Psychiatrist Warren B. Miller joined the Transnational Family Research Institute in 1983 as the full-time Director of the California branch, bringing with him long standing interests in adolescent sexuality, contraceptive use and unintended pregnancy. At TFRI, Dr. Miller conducted studies on sterilization decision-making in couples, then turned to a longitudinal study of birth planning in married couples, and followed that with several longitudinal studies of contraceptive practices in unmarried couples. A common thread in this research has been the measuring and study of childbearing motivation. More recently, this interest led Dr. Miller and TFRI into theoretical studies of the bio-psychosocial aspects of human social bonding and its relationship to reproductive behavior.

Links to Additional Resources

Peer Reviewed 1. 304730 [View full record] David HP. Born unwanted, 35 years later: the Prague Study. Reproductive Health Matters. 2006 May; 14 (27) :181-190.

Abortion and its Health Effects. H. P. David & E. Lee. In J. Worrell (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Women and Gender, Volume 1, pp. 1-14. Academic Press, 2001.

2. 284139 [View full record] David HP; Dytrych Z; Matejcek Z. Born unwanted: observations from the Prague Study. American Psychologist. 2003 Mar; 58 (3) :224-229.

4. 158179 [View full record] David HP; Skilogianis J. From abortion to contraception. A resource to public policies and reproductive behavior in Central and Eastern Europe from 1917 to the present. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1999. xxiv, 382 p. Biographical Sketch.pdf

title: Born unwanted: long-term developmental effects of denied abortion. Author: David HP Source: JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES. 1992;48(3):163-81.

http://myprofile.cos.com/WBMiller Publications

For links to publications by Dr. Miller, including abstracts and document ordering options, see:

POPLINE® (POPulation information onLINE) http://db.jhuccp.org/ics-wpd/popweb/

PubMed (search by author name Miller W.B.) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed Peer Reviewed

39. 013332 [View full record] Miller WB. The psychology of reproduction. Palo Alto, California, American Institutes for Research, 1980 Jan. 872 p. (NICHD Contracts No. NO1-HB-82831; RO1-HD-06266; RO1-HD-09887)

23. 067433 [View full record] Miller WB; Shain RN; Pasta DJ. Tubal sterilization or vasectomy: how do married couples make the choice? FERTILITY AND STERILITY. 1991 Aug; 56 (2) :278-84.

13. 098809 [View full record] Miller WB. Childbearing motivations, desires, and intentions: a theoretical framework. GENETIC, SOCIAL, AND GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY MONOGRAPHS. 1994 May; 120 (2) :225-58.

15. 105844 [View full record] Miller WB. Reproductive decisions: how we make them and how they make us. ADVANCES IN POPULATION: PSYCHOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVES. 1994; 2 :1-27. Peer Reviewed

2. 194221 [View full record] Miller WB; Severy LJ; Pasta DJ. A framework for modelling fertility motivation in couples. Population Studies. 2004; 58 (2) :193-205.

10. 250596 [View full record] Miller WB. Childbearing motivation and its measurement. JOURNAL OF BIOSOCIAL SCIENCE. 1995 Oct; 27 (4) :473-87.

Excerpted from the presentation address by Warren M. Hern, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. given at the ceremony honoring Henry David with the 2008 Christopher Tietze Humanitarian Award

“Henry David is one of the distinguished early leaders in the field of reproductive health and freedom. As a clinical psychologist, Henry became acquainted with Christopher Tietze in Geneva, Switzerland while working as Associate Director for the World Federation for Mental Health from 1963-1965. At that time, Henry and Christopher Tietze developed a plan for studying the mental health effects of abortion in eastern and central Europe. Henry later developed and directed the Prague Study of children born in 1961-63 to women twice denied abortion for the same pregnancy and pair-matched controls. This has become one of the most important single studies in the world literature of the mental health consequences of abortion and abortion denied. Henry’s work is classic and historic.

For over 30 years, Henry focused increasingly on studies of reproductive behavior and public policies, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe. He has written or edited 17 books and authored or co-authored over 300 papers. His work has been honored by numerous awards including the 1991 Medal of Charles University (Prague), the 1993 American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology, the 2001 Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Psychology in the Public Interest, the 2001 Carl Shultz Award of the American Public Health Association, and the 2001 Gold Shield of the Population and Community Development Association of Thailand.

In 1972, Dr. David founded the Transnational Family Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland,

Selected Major Publications

Abortion Research Notes. H. P. David, Editor. Transnational Family Research Institute, 1972 – 1990.

Born Unwanted: Developmental Effects of Denied Abortion. H.P. David, Z. Dytrych, Z. Matejcek, & V. Schuller. Springer Publishing, 1988.

From Abortion to Contraception: A Resource to Public Policies and Reproductive Behavior in Central and Eastern Europe from 1917 to the Present. H. P. David. Greenwood Press, 1999.

Abortion and its Health Effects. H. P. David & E. Lee. In J. Worrell (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Women and Gender, Volume 1, pp. 1-14. Academic Press, 2001.

Born Unwanted: 35 Years Later. Observations from the Prague study. H. P. David, Reproductive Health Matters, 14(27),181-190, 2006.

Links to additional Information about Dr. David include:

Biographical Sketch.pdf

Population and Reproductive Health Oral History Project.pdf. Henry P. David, interviewed by Deborah McFarlane, Sophia Smith Collection. Smith College, Northampton, MA.

Population and Reproductive Health Oral History Project.pdf. Henry P. David, interviewed by Deborah McFarlane, Sophia Smith Collection. Smith College, 2005.

http://www.smith.edu/library/libs/ssc/prh/prh-narrators.html#Darney