Correlates of Childlessness and Expectations to Remain Childless: U.S. 1967*
作者:
P. Neal Ritchey,
C. Shannon Stokes,
期刊:
Social Forces
(OUP Available online 1974)
卷期:
Volume 52,
issue 3
页码: 349-356
ISSN:0037-7732
年代: 1974
DOI:10.1093/sf/52.3.349
出版商: The University of North Carolina Press
数据来源: OUP
摘要:
It is widely agreed that society has strong mores proscribing couples remaining childless. Nonetheless, childlessness varies regularly by a number of sociodemographic factors. Given the virtually universal acceptance of the norm concerning the desirability of children, why does childlessness vary so widely among social aggregates?First, it may simply be the case that this norm is not as universal as previously thought. Alternatively, if the norm is as widespread as represented, various social structural influences may operate to counter, selectively, the prevailing norms and produce deviance.Data from the 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity for wives still in the childbearing years are used to explore these alternatives. Expectation data, interpreted as indicating the normative position of couples on remaining childless, are contrasted with current rates of childlessness for a number of factors. Comparisons suggest the second alternative and direct future research to include structural considerations.
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