Religion and Reproduction in Philippine Society

A New Test of the Minority-Group Status Hypothesis

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ID4264173
AutoresNan E Johnson (Michigan State University), Linda M Burton (Xavier University)
Año1987
Volumen48
Número3
Páginas217
Fecha de publicación1987-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Analysis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0210 • E-ISSN: 2325-7873
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3711519
OpenAlexW2284429171
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas10

Most previous tests of the religious-minority-group status hypothesis have sought explanations of Catholic pronatalism in more developed countries settled by Europeans or European immigrants. The present pilot study departed from that tradition by focussing on Protestant antinatalism in a lesser developed country settled by Malay and Chinese immigrants. This study of 366 unmarried college students in the central and southern Philippines found that Protestant respondents came from higher socioeconomic origins than did Catholic respondents. The Protestant men desired many fewer sons and daughters than did Catholic men, even when these differences in origins were controlled. The Protestant women did not want many fewer sons but did want many fewer daughters than the Catholic women wanted. Protestant respondents were less likely than the Catholics to view the instrumental roles of sons and daughters as the most salient advantages of having children. Protestants were much more likely than Catholics to think a married couple should start contraception before the first birth and much less likely to think that artificial methods of family planning were against God's will. The results suggest that support for the religious-minority-group status hypothesis is not limited to minorities with explicitly pronatalist creeds or to religious groups in more developed nations or nations with an indigenous European culture

Ethnic group · Immigration · Indigenous · Islam · Malay · Minority group · Nationality · Political science · Population · Protestantism · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Test (biology) · Anthropology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender Studies · Global Maternal and Child Health · History · Law · Psychology