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- Title
Determinants of child-bearing intentions of low-income women: attitudes versus life circumstances.
- Authors
Radecki, Stephen E.; Beckman, Linda J.; Radecki, S E; Beckman, L J
- Abstract
Surveys of low-income women in Los Angeles County in 1985 and 1986 were used to examine the relative impact of child-bearing motivations versus life circumstances on the intention to have a(nother) child. Future child-bearing intentions are strongly related to current parity level regardless of marital status, race/ethnicity or economic status. Psychological motivating factors predict child-bearing intentions of nulliparous women, but not those of parous women. Multivariate analyses showed that motivation for parenthood and life circumstances combined predicted women's child-bearing intentions 88·6% of the time for nulliparous women, but 73·7% for parous women. These findings suggest that, in a low-income population, the onset of parenthood reduces the relationship between specific motivations for child-bearing and actual child-bearing intentions, and diminishes the ability to predict child-bearing intentions based on both attitudinal and social/structural factors.
- Subjects
POOR people; MARITAL status; ETHNICITY; MULTIVARIATE analysis; SOCIAL factors; INTENTION; ECONOMIC status; ECONOMIC conditions of women
- Publication
Journal of Biosocial Science, 1992, Vol 24, Issue 2, p157
- ISSN
0021-9320
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1017/S0021932000019696