Social Class and Family Size

1983 ◽  
pp. 21-55
Author(s):  
Ken Fogelman
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Family Size

Height in Relation to Puberty Family Size and Social Class: A Longitudinal Study

1964 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. B. Douglas ◽  
Howard R. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Class A

Social Class, Family Size, and the Sick Role

1969 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank A. Petroni
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Sick Role

Cultural comparisons of mothers with large and small families

1976 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-302
Author(s):  
Margaret W. Linn ◽  
Lee Gurel ◽  
John Carmichael ◽  
Patricia Weed
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Ideal Family Size ◽  
Contraceptive Knowledge ◽  
Ideal Family ◽  
Cultural Comparisons

SummaryContraceptive knowledge and behaviour of mothers of large (five of more children) and small (under three children) families in four subcu;tures were compared with white Protestants. Four hundred and forty-nine mothers aged 35–45 years were studied from black, Cuban, Indian, Chicano, and white groups. With social class, knowledge of birth control, and degree of religiosity held constant, the best predictors of family size were the mother's desited family size (expressed as desired minus actual children) age at childbirth, and age at mariage. Data suggest that family size is not purely a function of birth control knoeledge but related to early marrage and pregnancy and in keeping with attitudes about an ideal family size. In general, factors related to size were stronger in the white group than in the subcultures, and in a few instances certain cultures were not consostent with others in overall trends.

Family Size, Intelligence Score and Social Class

1947 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Blackburn
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Intelligence Score

Childlessness and Marital Instability: A Re-Examination of the Evidence

1980 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Marital Instability ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Age At Marriage ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
High Social Class ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Completed Family Size

SummaryEarlier studies have queried whether divorce was associated with childlessness. Evidence from surveys of broken marriages passing through the divorce courts of England and Wales indicates that infertility and divorce are not related in the way supposed. When the duration of de facto marriage is controlled, divorcing couples have a higher rate of fertility than that found within those who remain married. The former are also more likely to have a larger family size within the same period of time. Similar findings emerge from data relating to broken marriages resorting to the magistrates' courts. These results are partly a consequence of the trend whereby working-class marriages—with their earlier start of a family and larger completed family size—form an increasing proportion of all divorcing couples.Survey results showed that within a divorcing population a shorter period of cohabitation resulted in a higher level of infertility. High infertility rates were also associated with later age at marriage and high social class. Current trends suggest that an increasing proportion of divorcing couples will be childless. It is concluded that there is need for a deeper knowledge of possible relationships, and their causes, in this and other areas of married life.

Birth order, family size, social class, and intelligence

1975 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Marjoribanks ◽  
Herbert J. Walberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Family Size

Family size and social class in nineteenth century Tasmania, Australia

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kosten ◽  
R. J. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Reproductive Period ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
Vital Records ◽  
Birth Records

SummaryData on fertility in a white Australian population based upon the vital records of the nineteenth century for two districts in Tasmania are presented. Mean family size was apparently low (3·2) and reproductive period short. However, when allowance was made for the truncation of birth records of migrant families, family size increased (4·9) markedly. Social class is shown to have a consistent effect on fertility levels in the larger community with low fertility associated with inferior economic status. Owing to the paucity of information contained within the vital records, it was impossible to investigate either age structure or migration effects on fertility. There is also evidence to suggest inbreeding is associated with higher, not lower, fertility.

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