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- Title
Attitudes toward illegitimacy in Alberta.
- Authors
Hobart, Charles W.
- Abstract
The article focuses on sexual permissiveness of women in the North America. There has been a distinct increase in sexual permissiveness, in terms of both attitudes and behavior, and this increase is restricted to women. It is also quite apparent that illegitimacy is experiencing a parallel increase: in the United States the illegitimacy ratio increased from 5.6 in 1961 to 8.4 in 1966 and 10.7 in 1970, while in Canada these increases were from 4.5 in 1961 to 7.6 in 1966 to 9.0 in 1972, and in Alberta the increases were from 6.2 in 1961 to 10.5 in 1966 to 11.8 in 1972. In any case, the illegitimacy ratios in 1972 in Canada and in Alberta were about twice as high as they were a decade earlier, in Canada as a whole, one out of every eleven live births is illegitimate, while in Alberta the figure is about one out of eight. This movement has emphasized full equality of women's rights with those of men, including sexual and employment rights. Associated with these contemporary developments is an increased interest among some unwed mothers in keeping and raising their babies which has been reported in a variety of ways in the daily press.
- Subjects
ALBERTA; NORTH America; CANADA; WOMEN'S sexual behavior; ILLEGITIMACY; WOMEN; CHILDBIRTH
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1975, Vol 1, Issue 3, p263
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3340412