College Women and Fertility Values / Raymond H. Potvin, Charles F. Westoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Westoff, Charles F., author.

Potvin, Raymond H., author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Office of Population Research ; 1969

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fertility, Human.

Family size.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 universities, both secular and nonsecular, attempts to answer this question and to determine how such characteristics as religious preference, career intentions, and the number of children in her own family influence a woman's fertility values. Attention is paid to an earlier finding that Catholic college graduates have higher fertility than Catholic high school graduates, although higher education is usually associated with lower fertility.Originally published in 1967.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliographical footnotes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-691-65003-9

1-4008-7605-2

OCLC:

967550234