Marital status and female and male contraceptive sterilization in the United States

This study shows that being unmarried at the time of sterilization-an important risk factor for poststerilization regret-was much more common among women than men. In addition to contributing to the predominance of female, vs. male, sterilization, this pattern highlights the importance of educating women on the permanency of sterilization, and the opportunity to increase reliance on long-acting reversible contraceptive methods.