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Rocking the Cradle

Downsizing the New England Family

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3484467
AutoresGloria L Main (Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen37
Número1
Páginas35-58
Fecha de publicación2006-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169
EditorialMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/jinh.2006.37.1.35
OpenAlexW2005013578
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas28

Between 1790 and 1840, median completed family size in New England genealogies fell by half. Age at marriage rose only moderately during this period, but the rate of premarital pregnancy plummeted, intervals between births lengthened, and mothers' age at last birth fell to thirty-seven. Analysis of the number of children born to a subset of mothers younger than thirty in various Connecticut and New Hampshire towns c. 1818 suggests that couples' motives for postponing births appear to have been as much cultural as economic

Art · Birth rate · Cartography · Fell · Fertility · Genealogy · Geography · New england · Period (music) · Political science · Population · Sociology · American History and Culture · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Medicine

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Obras citantes distintas11
Citas por año0,61
Intervalo de citas2008 - 2026 (19)
Velocidad de citacióncurrent
Altamente citadoNo
Tipos de citaNeutras: 11
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