IN THIS ISSUE.

Discusses the articles published in the December 2003 issue of the "International Family Planning Perspectives" journal which report on situations in which conventional wisdom or conventional approaches to analysis needed to be reexamined. "Unmet Need and Unintended Fertility: Longitudinal Evidence From Upper Egypt," by John Casterline and colleagues; "The Psychosocial Context of Young Adult Sexual Behavior in Nicaragua: Looking Through the Gender Lens," by Manju Rani and colleagues.