Emerging Parental Gender Indifference? Sex Composition of Children and the Third Birth

Emerging Parental Gender Indifference? Sex Composition of Children and the Third Birth

Using multiple cycles of the Current Population Survey and National Survey of Family Growth, Pollard and Morgan examine the strength of this effect on both fertility behavior and intentions over multiple decades. Changes in the societal gender system are expected to weaken this pronatalist effect in...

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Veröffentlicht in:American sociological review 2002-08, Vol.67 (4), p.600
Hauptverfasser: Pollard, Michael S., Morgan, S. Philip
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Apathy
Asymmetry
Behavior
Births
Children
Children & youth
Couples
Daughters
Evidence
Families & family life
Fertility
Gender
Gender equity
Individualized Instruction
Infertility
Institutional Characteristics
Institutionalization
National Surveys
Older Adults
Parents
Parents & parenting
Patriarchy
Polls & surveys
Population
Preferences
Pregnancy
Protestants
Sex roles
Social Status
Sociology
Sons
State Surveys
Women
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Zusammenfassung:Using multiple cycles of the Current Population Survey and National Survey of Family Growth, Pollard and Morgan examine the strength of this effect on both fertility behavior and intentions over multiple decades. Changes in the societal gender system are expected to weaken this pronatalist effect in recent periods.
ISSN:0003-1224
1939-8271
DOI:10.2307/3088947