Religious Differences in Family Size Preference among American Teenagers
This paper analyzes differences between Catholic and non-Catholic young people in attitudes toward family formation. A sample of 941 students in junior high schools, high schools, and colleges in the Washington, D. C. area responded to a self-administered questionnaire in 1971. Data were obtained on...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1974
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1974, Volume: 35, Issue: 1, Pages: 35-44 |
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| Summary: | This paper analyzes differences between Catholic and non-Catholic young people in attitudes toward family formation. A sample of 941 students in junior high schools, high schools, and colleges in the Washington, D. C. area responded to a self-administered questionnaire in 1971. Data were obtained on students' background, attitudes toward family formation, girls' career aspirations, and population awareness. In general, results emphasize and reemphasize the continuing importance of a religious differential in family size preference. Religious affiliation was more predictive of preferred family size than was race, sex, age, socio-economic status, number of siblings, type of school, maternal work history, or girls' career aspirations. These results differ from those obtained in recent studies based on short term trends in religious conformity but are consistent with longer term trends. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3710341 |