College Women and Fertility Values /

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Has the college experience of women been an influence on the number of children desired and the number and spacing of their children? Do women come to college with their attitudes and values in this regard already formed? This study of 15,000 women, freshmen and seniors in 45 American colleges and u...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Westoff, Charles F. (Autor), Potvin, Raymond H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Colección:Office of Population Research ; 1969
Temas:
Family size.
Fertility, Human.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Part I. Introduction
  • 1. Background, Scope, and Method
  • Part II. The Effects of Higher Education
  • 2. Types of Colleges and Family-Size Preferences
  • 3. Higher Education and Family-Size Preferences
  • 4. Higher Education and Family-Planning Intentions
  • 5. Higher Education and Fertility Values within Selected Controls
  • 6. Higher Education and Some Beliefs about Marriage, Family, and Career
  • 7. Conclusions and Discussion of the Effects of Higher Education
  • Part III. The Influence of Social Factors and Beliefs
  • 8. Social and Personal Characteristics and Fertility Values
  • 9. Beliefs, Family-Size Preferences, and Family-Planning Intentions
  • 10. Intergroup Distances and Belief Structures
  • 11. Multivariate Analyses of Correlates of Family-Size Preferences
  • 12. Conclusions and Discussion of Factors Affecting Fertility Values
  • Appendix
  • Index

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