Mobility, Marriage and Child-Spacing among College Graduates

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ID2586076
AuthorsCarolyn Cummings Perrucci
Year1968
Volume30
Issue2
Pages273
Publication date1968-05-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Marriage and the Family (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-2445 • E-ISSN: 1741-3737
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/349253
OpenAlexW1974067297
LanguageEN
Citations received4

An examination was made of the relationship of social origins educational level and career mobility to the timing of marriage timing of initial childbirth within marriage and family size. Data were analyzed from samples of engineering and science graduates from a large midwestern university. For 11 of 16 analyses of covariance conducted there were overall significant Fs and interaction effects. With continued exposure to higher education there appeared to be rather pronounced deferral behavior regarding marriage and childbearing. While career mobility had some effect on fertility behavior the effects were not consistent across all levels of social origins or for both professional groups. The relevance of these findings for two views of the mobility/fertility process was discussed. Finally the adequacy of the focus on family size as a test of the mobility/fertility process was brought into question once again. (authors)

Childbirth · Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Economics · Fertility · Political science · Population · Pregnancy · Relevance (law · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Test (biology · Demography · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges

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