Tabernacles for Waiting Spirits

Monogamous and Polygamous Fertility in a Mormon Town

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6079567
AutoresLarry M Logue (California State University, Fullerton, autor de correspondencia), Larry Logue (California State University, Fullerton)
Año1985
Volumen10
Número1
Páginas60-74
Fecha de publicación1985-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Family History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/036319908501000104
PMID11611739
OpenAlexW2138230899
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas29

Nineteenth-century Mormon doctrine strongly emphasized high fertili ty, offering heavenly rewards to large families. This essay examines fertility in a Utah town, St. George, finding that there were no identifiable determinants of fertility other than Church doctrine. Polygamous fertility rates, contrary to ex pectations, were about the same as monogamous rates. Social standing likewise made no important difference in fertility, and the economic value of children as an incentive to high fertility is questionable in a town that had a labor surplus. The most likely cause of St. George's uniform pattern of natural fertility was the residents' desire to ensure their heavenly status

Demographic economics · Doctrine · Economics · Ethnology · Family planning · Fertility · Geography · Political science · Population · Research methodology · Sociology · Total fertility rate · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Demography · History · Law · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Mormonism, Religion, and History