The Catholic Birth-Rate
Further Facts and Implications
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2199684 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gilbert Kelly Robinson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1936 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 757-766 |
| Publication date | 1936-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/217298 |
| OpenAlex | W1987049387 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
The decline in the Catholic birth-rate is due in part to the fact that children of immigrants have smaller families than immigrants, since in selected Chicago census tracts which are mostly Polish or mostly Italian the rate of reproduction in immigrant families is approximately twice as great as in second-generation families. When the major portion of immigrant women pass beyond the child-bearing ages, one factor in the Catholic birth-rate decline will cease to operate. With the existing immigration law there is little replenishing of Italian and Polish immigrants of productive ages and a decidedly lower birth-rate is the result. The birth-rate in second-generation Catholic families in Chicago also declined sharply between 1920 and 1930. The rapid decline in the birth-rate among those of Polish and Italian descent is found to be applicable to both the native white and the foreign-born white, and this decline among the native white was more rapid from 1920 to 1930 than was that of the native white population of the United States as a whole. The present age distribution of those of Italian and Polish descent in the United States is favorable to population increase in these nationalities during the next fifteen years despite the decline in the birth-rates, since an unusually large proportion of those of Italian and Polish descent are just entering the ages of productivity
Biology · Birth rate · Census · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Fertility · Geography · Immigration · Population · Productivity · Sociology · White (mutation) · Census and Population Estimation · Demography
Denomination and fertility decline
Differential Fertility in Completed Oklahoma Farm Families
Duality and Diversity in the Lives of Immigrant Children
All in the Family Again? Political Historians and the Challenge of Social History
After the Alliance
Fewer Children of Greater Spiritual Quality”
The end of “Catholic” fertility
Voluntary and involuntary childlessness among catholic and non-catholic women
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1944 - 2009 (66) |
| Highly cited | No |