Alienation and Fertility in the Marital Dyad
- 1 September 1977
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Social Forces
- Vol. 56 (1) , 77-85
- https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/56.1.77
Abstract
Following Seeman's conceptualization, multiple measures of alienation were employed to investigate differential fertility behavior among 328 couples in their childbearing years. With the effects of demographic and socioeconomic variables partialled out, significant remaining variance in a series of dependent fertility measures was explained by various combinations of family and societal alienations. The alienations obtained from husbands were equal in importance to those from the wives, and combining the alienations of wives and husbands increased the amount of remaining variance explained.Keywords
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