Polygyny and fertility in nineteenth-century America

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20970271
AutoresJames E Smith (0000-0001-7908-1859), Phillip R Kunz
Ano1976
Volume30
Fascículo3
Páginas465-480
Data de publicação1976-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPopulation Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0032-4728 • E-ISSN: 1477-4747
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00324728.1976.10410417
PMID11630561
OpenAlexW2061098831
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas7

Completed marital fertility in polygynous and monogamous unions in the nineteenth-century Mormon population is examined. Overall, women in polygynous unions show slightly lower completed marital fertility than do women in monogamous unions. In addition, patterns of differential fertility among wives of various positions in polygynous families are examined. Attempts to account for differential fertility in terms of differential childlessness, child spacing family limitation, age at marriage and occupational distribution are not successful. The hypothesis that wives in polygynous unions have lower coital frequency than wives in monogamous unions is contradicted by data on child spacing. Polygyny is probably more important as a pattern of selection than as a causal factor in determining fertility

Childlessness · Fertility · Geography · Polygyny · Population · Sociology · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Marriage and Sexual Relationships