The biocultural pattern of Japanese‐American fertility

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Abstract
A comparison of age-specific fertility data on 2nd-generation Japanese-American women with published data on modern and premodern women in Japan and with data on modern USA white women shows the persistence of a fertility pattern among all Japanese groups. This pattern is significantly different from that of USA whites. Continuity in certain family and kinship elements played a central role in the persistence of this pattern. The introduction of modern contraceptive techniques may have the consequence of merely intensifying a cultural pattern of fertility, rather than changing its basic outlines.