Catholic/Protestant Differences in Marital Status
Although for well over twenty years, evidence has shown that among women of childbearing age, Catholics are more likely never-married than Protestants, the religion-marital status relationship has been cursorily explored. This study models the relationship with marital status, premarital pregnancy,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
1990
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Review of religious research
Year: 1990, Volume: 32, Issue: 1, Pages: 65-77 |
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| Summary: | Although for well over twenty years, evidence has shown that among women of childbearing age, Catholics are more likely never-married than Protestants, the religion-marital status relationship has been cursorily explored. This study models the relationship with marital status, premarital pregnancy, and education as endogenous variables, and religion, hispanic status, age, mother's education, and father's occupational status as exogenous variables. Additionally, religiosity's interaction with independent variables is explored. We test two competing explanations for the association of religion and marital status, i.e., the relationship reflects (1) the association of religion and other determinants of marital status and (2) ideological differences between Catholics and Protestants. Findings support the latter explanation. We analyze white women, 15 to 44 years of age, from the 1982 National Survey of Family Growth. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3511328 |