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Family and Fertility in Puerto Rico

A Study of the Lower Income Group
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1955

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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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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Acknowledgments

    IX
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    Contents

    XI
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    Tables

    XIII
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    Figures

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    I Introduction

    1
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    II Differential Status Ideologies of the Sexes

    29
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    III Child-Rearing Practices

    37
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    IV Courtship

    60
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    V Early Marriage and Consensual Union

    87
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    VI Marital Relations

    122
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    VII Attitudes toward Fertility: The Fertility Belief System

    158
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    VIII Attitudes toward Birth Control

    182
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    IX The Dynamics of Birth-Control Use

    217
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    X Summary and Recommendations

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    Appendix A: Methodology

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    Appendix Β: Respondent Characteristics

    293
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    Appendix C: The Construction of Indices

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    Appendix D: Interview Forms

    300
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    Appendix E: Categories for File Index of Selected Quotations

    315
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    List of Works Cited

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    Index

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9780231882064
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https://doi.org/10.7312/styc91102
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