K L Brewster
Biographic Data
| ID | 10399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K L Brewster |
| GIVEN NAMES | K L |
| FAMILY NAME | Brewster |
| SIGNATURE | BREWSTER K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2164-3753 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1028 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Trends in Vaginal Intercourse Experience and Timing among Adolescent Men in the United States: A Descriptive Analysis by Race/Ethnicity
Recent reports of declining prevalence of vaginal intercourse (VI) experience among adolescent men are largely silent on differences by race and ethnicity. This visualization illustrates trends by race/ethnicity in VI experience, average age at first VI, and age-specific cumulative probabilities of VI experience for young men, using retrospective data from multiple rounds of the National Survey of Family Growth covering 2006 to 2019. The authors …
Timing of First Sexual Experience with a Same-Sex Partner: A Life Course Approach
Psychological distress in middle eastern immigrants to the United States: A challenge to the healthy migrant model
Sexual and Romantic Relationships in Young Adulthood
Sociological research has long recognized the important role that intimate relationships play in young people's lives. In recent decades, relationship formation patterns and relationship trajectories during the early years of adulthood have become increasingly diverse and complex. In recognition of this, we review contemporary research on sexual and romantic relationships among young adults in the United States, noting how relationship attitudes,…
Binge Drinking in Young Adulthood: The Influence of Age at First Intercourse and Rate of Sex Partner Accumulation
Family Flexibility in Response to Economic Conditions: Fathers' Involvement in Child‐Care Tasks
Recession‐related increases in men's child care are well documented, but supporting evidence describes the last several decades of the 20th century. Changes in family life and in the association between families' economic conditions and the macro economy provide reason to question the continued existence of a “recession effect.” This article evaluates the frequency of married and cohabiting fathers' engagement in the day‐to‐day tasks of child car…
Demographic Characteristics of Lesbian Parents in the United States
Predictors of Stability and Change in Private Safety Nets of Unmarried Mothers
Although the importance of social supports for single mothers in times of crisis is widely recognized, little is known about the stability of such "private safety nets" over time, as children age and maternal and household characteristics change. This study uses multilevel models and 4 waves of data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to describe trajectories of social support perceptions for 3,065 unmarried mothers. Results sugge…
Sexual Orientation and Substance Use Among Adolescents and Young Adults
Objectives. We examined interrelationships among the 3 dimensions of sexual orientation—self-identity, sexual attraction, and sexual experience—and their associations with substance use among adolescents and young adults. Methods. To estimate total and net associations of sexual identity, attraction, and experience with use of tobacco, drugs, and alcohol, we applied logistic regression to cross-sectional data from the National Survey of Family Gr…
Patterns and Correlates of Same‐Sex Sexual Activity Among U.S. Teenagers and Young Adults
A significant proportion of "straight" youth engage in same-sex activity, and so information on risks associated with such behavior should be included in sex education programs and targeted to all youth
Adolescents’ Sexual Initiation: The Interaction of Race/Ethnicity and Immigrant Status
The influence of race/ethnicity on disadvantaged mothers’ child care arrangements
No More Kin Care: Change in Black Mothers' Reliance on Relatives for Child Care, 1977-94
This article examines changes in employed African American mothers' use of relatives for child care. Data from nationally representative pooled cross sections show that the proportion of Black mothers relying on extended kin for care of their preschool-age children declined significantly between 1977 and 1994. Multivariate analyses reveal that the decline characterized all subgroups of employed African American mothers but was less pronounced for…
Fertility and Women's Employment in Industrialized Nations
The association between fertility and womens labor force activity reflects the incompatibility between caring for the children and participating in economically productive work that typifies industrialized societies. Women who wish to participate in the labor force must either limit their fertility or make alternative arrangements for the care of their children. As a result fertility rates in most countries are below the level needed for populati…
Change in Gender-Ideology, 1977-1996: The Contributions of Intracohort Change and Population Turnover
This paper addresses the processes underlying the dramatic shift in beliefs about women's work and family roles in the United States over the past two decades. Following Mason and Lu (1988), we posited this shift to be a function of actual change in individual opinions, as well as changes in population membership that result from births and deaths. Using pooled cross-sections from the General Social Surveys (1977 to 1996), we found that although …
The Impact of Type of Employment on Women's Use of Prenatal-Care Services and Family Planning in Urban Cebu, the Philippines
This study re-evaluates the relationship of urban women's employment to their health-service and contraceptive use, drawing on data from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey. Multivariate analyses reveal significant differences across types of work for the likelihood of both obtaining timely prenatal care and practicing contraception at one year postpartum. Wage workers in white-collar jobs are significantly more likely than those no…
The Changing Impact of Religion on the Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior of Adolescent Women in the United States
Karin L. Brewster, Elizabeth C. Cooksey, David K. Guilkey, Ronald R. Rindfuss, The Changing Impact of Religion on the Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior of Adolescent Women in the United States, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 60, No. 2 (May, 1998), pp. 493-504
Childrearing and Fertility
Ronald R. Rindfuss, Karin L. Brewster, Childrearing and Fertility, Population and Development Review, Vol. 22, Supplement: Fertility in the United States: New Patterns, New Theories (1996), pp. 258-289
Women, Work, and Children: Behavioral and Attitudinal Change in the United States
The United States at mid-century had a strong norm that mothers of young children should be full-time homemakers. Since then there has been a strong trend toward higher levels of labor force participation of mothers of preschool-age children. Since the early 1970s this trend in labor force participation has been accompanied by stable fertility rates. In this article using attitudinal data the authors show that there has been a substantial weakeni…
Neighborhood Context and the Transition to Sexual Activity among Young Black Women
Previous studies report that neighborhood characteristics influence pregnancy and childbearing risk among African-American adolescent women. These studies, however, leave unidentified the effects of many neighborhood properties on the proximate determinants of nonmarital fertility. In this study I examine the effects of neighborhood characteristics on the risk of nonmarital first intercourse and on contraceptive use among black female adolescents…
Race Differences in Sexual Activity Among Adolescent Women: The Role of Neighborhood Characteristics
A sociologist applied individual and aggregate-level 1982 data on 11620 observations and 1180 first intercourse events to multivariate hazard models to examine the role of neighborhood characteristics in determining racial differences in nonmarital sexual activity of US adolescents. The hypothesis is that racially-differentiated community environments generate and maintain race differences in fertility-related behaviors. The dependent variable is…
Contextual Effects on the Sexual Behavior of Adolescent Women
The impact of social context on female adolescents sexual behavior subsequent to first intercourse was investigated through use of data on females 15-19 years of age from Cycle III of the 1982 US National Survey of Family Growth. Logistic regression was selected to estimate models for the two dependent variables--experiencing premarital intercourse and coital frequency--for the 566 Black and 1286 White subjects. Community factors such as social d…
Social Context and Adolescent Behavior: The Impact of Community on the Transition to Sexual Activity
Journal Article Social Context and Adolescent Behavior: The Impact of Community on the Transition to Sexual Activity Get access Karin L. Brewster, Karin L. Brewster University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Direct all correspondence to Karin L. Brewster, Carolina Population Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #8120, University Square, Chapel Hill, NC 27516-3997. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Fertility and Women's Employment in Industrialized Nations
The association between fertility and womens labor force activity reflects the incompatibility between caring for the children and participating in economically productive work that typifies industrialized societies. Women who wish to participate in the labor force must either limit their fertility or make alternative arrangements for the care of their children. As a result fertility rates in most countries are below the level needed for populati…
Change in Gender-Ideology, 1977-1996: The Contributions of Intracohort Change and Population Turnover
This paper addresses the processes underlying the dramatic shift in beliefs about women's work and family roles in the United States over the past two decades. Following Mason and Lu (1988), we posited this shift to be a function of actual change in individual opinions, as well as changes in population membership that result from births and deaths. Using pooled cross-sections from the General Social Surveys (1977 to 1996), we found that although …
Race Differences in Sexual Activity Among Adolescent Women: The Role of Neighborhood Characteristics
A sociologist applied individual and aggregate-level 1982 data on 11620 observations and 1180 first intercourse events to multivariate hazard models to examine the role of neighborhood characteristics in determining racial differences in nonmarital sexual activity of US adolescents. The hypothesis is that racially-differentiated community environments generate and maintain race differences in fertility-related behaviors. The dependent variable is…
Contextual Effects on the Sexual Behavior of Adolescent Women
The impact of social context on female adolescents sexual behavior subsequent to first intercourse was investigated through use of data on females 15-19 years of age from Cycle III of the 1982 US National Survey of Family Growth. Logistic regression was selected to estimate models for the two dependent variables--experiencing premarital intercourse and coital frequency--for the 566 Black and 1286 White subjects. Community factors such as social d…
Neighborhood Context and the Transition to Sexual Activity among Young Black Women
Previous studies report that neighborhood characteristics influence pregnancy and childbearing risk among African-American adolescent women. These studies, however, leave unidentified the effects of many neighborhood properties on the proximate determinants of nonmarital fertility. In this study I examine the effects of neighborhood characteristics on the risk of nonmarital first intercourse and on contraceptive use among black female adolescents…
Childrearing and Fertility
Ronald R. Rindfuss, Karin L. Brewster, Childrearing and Fertility, Population and Development Review, Vol. 22, Supplement: Fertility in the United States: New Patterns, New Theories (1996), pp. 258-289
Social Context and Adolescent Behavior: The Impact of Community on the Transition to Sexual Activity
Journal Article Social Context and Adolescent Behavior: The Impact of Community on the Transition to Sexual Activity Get access Karin L. Brewster, Karin L. Brewster University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Direct all correspondence to Karin L. Brewster, Carolina Population Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #8120, University Square, Chapel Hill, NC 27516-3997. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Women, Work, and Children: Behavioral and Attitudinal Change in the United States
The United States at mid-century had a strong norm that mothers of young children should be full-time homemakers. Since then there has been a strong trend toward higher levels of labor force participation of mothers of preschool-age children. Since the early 1970s this trend in labor force participation has been accompanied by stable fertility rates. In this article using attitudinal data the authors show that there has been a substantial weakeni…
The influence of race/ethnicity on disadvantaged mothers’ child care arrangements
Sexual and Romantic Relationships in Young Adulthood
Sociological research has long recognized the important role that intimate relationships play in young people's lives. In recent decades, relationship formation patterns and relationship trajectories during the early years of adulthood have become increasingly diverse and complex. In recognition of this, we review contemporary research on sexual and romantic relationships among young adults in the United States, noting how relationship attitudes,…
No More Kin Care: Change in Black Mothers' Reliance on Relatives for Child Care, 1977-94
This article examines changes in employed African American mothers' use of relatives for child care. Data from nationally representative pooled cross sections show that the proportion of Black mothers relying on extended kin for care of their preschool-age children declined significantly between 1977 and 1994. Multivariate analyses reveal that the decline characterized all subgroups of employed African American mothers but was less pronounced for…
The Changing Impact of Religion on the Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior of Adolescent Women in the United States
Karin L. Brewster, Elizabeth C. Cooksey, David K. Guilkey, Ronald R. Rindfuss, The Changing Impact of Religion on the Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior of Adolescent Women in the United States, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 60, No. 2 (May, 1998), pp. 493-504
Sexual Orientation and Substance Use Among Adolescents and Young Adults
Objectives. We examined interrelationships among the 3 dimensions of sexual orientation—self-identity, sexual attraction, and sexual experience—and their associations with substance use among adolescents and young adults. Methods. To estimate total and net associations of sexual identity, attraction, and experience with use of tobacco, drugs, and alcohol, we applied logistic regression to cross-sectional data from the National Survey of Family Gr…
Patterns and Correlates of Same‐Sex Sexual Activity Among U.S. Teenagers and Young Adults
A significant proportion of "straight" youth engage in same-sex activity, and so information on risks associated with such behavior should be included in sex education programs and targeted to all youth
The Impact of Type of Employment on Women's Use of Prenatal-Care Services and Family Planning in Urban Cebu, the Philippines
This study re-evaluates the relationship of urban women's employment to their health-service and contraceptive use, drawing on data from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey. Multivariate analyses reveal significant differences across types of work for the likelihood of both obtaining timely prenatal care and practicing contraception at one year postpartum. Wage workers in white-collar jobs are significantly more likely than those no…
Predictors of Stability and Change in Private Safety Nets of Unmarried Mothers
Although the importance of social supports for single mothers in times of crisis is widely recognized, little is known about the stability of such "private safety nets" over time, as children age and maternal and household characteristics change. This study uses multilevel models and 4 waves of data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to describe trajectories of social support perceptions for 3,065 unmarried mothers. Results sugge…
Psychological distress in middle eastern immigrants to the United States: A challenge to the healthy migrant model
Family Flexibility in Response to Economic Conditions: Fathers' Involvement in Child‐Care Tasks
Recession‐related increases in men's child care are well documented, but supporting evidence describes the last several decades of the 20th century. Changes in family life and in the association between families' economic conditions and the macro economy provide reason to question the continued existence of a “recession effect.” This article evaluates the frequency of married and cohabiting fathers' engagement in the day‐to‐day tasks of child car…
Binge Drinking in Young Adulthood: The Influence of Age at First Intercourse and Rate of Sex Partner Accumulation
Demographic Characteristics of Lesbian Parents in the United States
Adolescents’ Sexual Initiation: The Interaction of Race/Ethnicity and Immigrant Status
Social Context and Adolescent Behavior: The Impact of Community on the Transition to Sexual Activity
Journal Article Social Context and Adolescent Behavior: The Impact of Community on the Transition to Sexual Activity Get access Karin L. Brewster, Karin L. Brewster University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Direct all correspondence to Karin L. Brewster, Carolina Population Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #8120, University Square, Chapel Hill, NC 27516-3997. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Neighborhood Context and the Transition to Sexual Activity among Young Black Women
Previous studies report that neighborhood characteristics influence pregnancy and childbearing risk among African-American adolescent women. These studies, however, leave unidentified the effects of many neighborhood properties on the proximate determinants of nonmarital fertility. In this study I examine the effects of neighborhood characteristics on the risk of nonmarital first intercourse and on contraceptive use among black female adolescents…
Race Differences in Sexual Activity Among Adolescent Women: The Role of Neighborhood Characteristics
A sociologist applied individual and aggregate-level 1982 data on 11620 observations and 1180 first intercourse events to multivariate hazard models to examine the role of neighborhood characteristics in determining racial differences in nonmarital sexual activity of US adolescents. The hypothesis is that racially-differentiated community environments generate and maintain race differences in fertility-related behaviors. The dependent variable is…
Contextual Effects on the Sexual Behavior of Adolescent Women
The impact of social context on female adolescents sexual behavior subsequent to first intercourse was investigated through use of data on females 15-19 years of age from Cycle III of the 1982 US National Survey of Family Growth. Logistic regression was selected to estimate models for the two dependent variables--experiencing premarital intercourse and coital frequency--for the 566 Black and 1286 White subjects. Community factors such as social d…
Childrearing and Fertility
Ronald R. Rindfuss, Karin L. Brewster, Childrearing and Fertility, Population and Development Review, Vol. 22, Supplement: Fertility in the United States: New Patterns, New Theories (1996), pp. 258-289
Women, Work, and Children: Behavioral and Attitudinal Change in the United States
The United States at mid-century had a strong norm that mothers of young children should be full-time homemakers. Since then there has been a strong trend toward higher levels of labor force participation of mothers of preschool-age children. Since the early 1970s this trend in labor force participation has been accompanied by stable fertility rates. In this article using attitudinal data the authors show that there has been a substantial weakeni…
The Impact of Type of Employment on Women's Use of Prenatal-Care Services and Family Planning in Urban Cebu, the Philippines
This study re-evaluates the relationship of urban women's employment to their health-service and contraceptive use, drawing on data from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey. Multivariate analyses reveal significant differences across types of work for the likelihood of both obtaining timely prenatal care and practicing contraception at one year postpartum. Wage workers in white-collar jobs are significantly more likely than those no…
The Changing Impact of Religion on the Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior of Adolescent Women in the United States
Karin L. Brewster, Elizabeth C. Cooksey, David K. Guilkey, Ronald R. Rindfuss, The Changing Impact of Religion on the Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior of Adolescent Women in the United States, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 60, No. 2 (May, 1998), pp. 493-504
Fertility and Women's Employment in Industrialized Nations
The association between fertility and womens labor force activity reflects the incompatibility between caring for the children and participating in economically productive work that typifies industrialized societies. Women who wish to participate in the labor force must either limit their fertility or make alternative arrangements for the care of their children. As a result fertility rates in most countries are below the level needed for populati…
Change in Gender-Ideology, 1977-1996: The Contributions of Intracohort Change and Population Turnover
This paper addresses the processes underlying the dramatic shift in beliefs about women's work and family roles in the United States over the past two decades. Following Mason and Lu (1988), we posited this shift to be a function of actual change in individual opinions, as well as changes in population membership that result from births and deaths. Using pooled cross-sections from the General Social Surveys (1977 to 1996), we found that although …
No More Kin Care: Change in Black Mothers' Reliance on Relatives for Child Care, 1977-94
This article examines changes in employed African American mothers' use of relatives for child care. Data from nationally representative pooled cross sections show that the proportion of Black mothers relying on extended kin for care of their preschool-age children declined significantly between 1977 and 1994. Multivariate analyses reveal that the decline characterized all subgroups of employed African American mothers but was less pronounced for…
The influence of race/ethnicity on disadvantaged mothers’ child care arrangements
Adolescents’ Sexual Initiation: The Interaction of Race/Ethnicity and Immigrant Status
Patterns and Correlates of Same‐Sex Sexual Activity Among U.S. Teenagers and Young Adults
A significant proportion of "straight" youth engage in same-sex activity, and so information on risks associated with such behavior should be included in sex education programs and targeted to all youth
Sexual Orientation and Substance Use Among Adolescents and Young Adults
Objectives. We examined interrelationships among the 3 dimensions of sexual orientation—self-identity, sexual attraction, and sexual experience—and their associations with substance use among adolescents and young adults. Methods. To estimate total and net associations of sexual identity, attraction, and experience with use of tobacco, drugs, and alcohol, we applied logistic regression to cross-sectional data from the National Survey of Family Gr…
Predictors of Stability and Change in Private Safety Nets of Unmarried Mothers
Although the importance of social supports for single mothers in times of crisis is widely recognized, little is known about the stability of such "private safety nets" over time, as children age and maternal and household characteristics change. This study uses multilevel models and 4 waves of data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to describe trajectories of social support perceptions for 3,065 unmarried mothers. Results sugge…
Demographic Characteristics of Lesbian Parents in the United States
Family Flexibility in Response to Economic Conditions: Fathers' Involvement in Child‐Care Tasks
Recession‐related increases in men's child care are well documented, but supporting evidence describes the last several decades of the 20th century. Changes in family life and in the association between families' economic conditions and the macro economy provide reason to question the continued existence of a “recession effect.” This article evaluates the frequency of married and cohabiting fathers' engagement in the day‐to‐day tasks of child car…
Binge Drinking in Young Adulthood: The Influence of Age at First Intercourse and Rate of Sex Partner Accumulation
Sexual and Romantic Relationships in Young Adulthood
Sociological research has long recognized the important role that intimate relationships play in young people's lives. In recent decades, relationship formation patterns and relationship trajectories during the early years of adulthood have become increasingly diverse and complex. In recognition of this, we review contemporary research on sexual and romantic relationships among young adults in the United States, noting how relationship attitudes,…
Timing of First Sexual Experience with a Same-Sex Partner: A Life Course Approach
Psychological distress in middle eastern immigrants to the United States: A challenge to the healthy migrant model
Trends in Vaginal Intercourse Experience and Timing among Adolescent Men in the United States: A Descriptive Analysis by Race/Ethnicity
Recent reports of declining prevalence of vaginal intercourse (VI) experience among adolescent men are largely silent on differences by race and ethnicity. This visualization illustrates trends by race/ethnicity in VI experience, average age at first VI, and age-specific cumulative probabilities of VI experience for young men, using retrospective data from multiple rounds of the National Survey of Family Growth covering 2006 to 2019. The authors …
Demography (19 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Population (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Demography (14 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (10 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (9 works) · Family planning (8 works)