Family and Fertility in Puerto Rico : : A Study of the Lower Income Group / / J. Mayone Stycos.
Covers a wide range of variables hypothetically bearing on fertility while emphasizing sexual norms, character structure, the fertility belief system, and birth control practices, as they are all influenced by the family.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1955] ©1955 |
| Year of Publication: | 1955 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- I Introduction
- II Differential Status Ideologies of the Sexes
- III Child-Rearing Practices
- IV Courtship
- V Early Marriage and Consensual Union
- VI Marital Relations
- VII Attitudes toward Fertility: The Fertility Belief System
- VIII Attitudes toward Birth Control
- IX The Dynamics of Birth-Control Use
- X Summary and Recommendations
- Appendix A: Methodology
- Appendix Β: Respondent Characteristics
- Appendix C: The Construction of Indices
- Appendix D: Interview Forms
- Appendix E: Categories for File Index of Selected Quotations
- List of Works Cited
- Index