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- Title
Americans' Views on Sex Roles, Family are Less Rigid Now Than in 1960s.
- Authors
Turner, R.
- Abstract
The article presents results of a survey about Americans' view on sex roles and family issues progressed throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Contemporary adults and teenagers have more egalitarian attitudes towards sex roles and feel less bound by social imperatives to marry, stay married, have children and remain faithful to their spouses, compared with their counterparts 25 years ago. According to a study using survey data collected between 1962 and 1986, these changes in attitudes concerning sex roles and family issues progressed throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, but slackened in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The proportion believing premarital intercourse to be wrong continued to decrease through the mid-1970s, faffing in 1975 to 22 percent among young women and 15 percent among young men. The investigator notes that the apparent relaxation of societal rules concerning family issues in the 1960s and 1970s occurred concurrently with trends towards more tolerance, individuality and autonomy regarding religion, politics and civil liberties, and suggests that these issues may be linked.
- Subjects
UNITED States; GENDER role; FAMILIES; SEXUAL behavior surveys; SEXUAL psychology; HEALTH surveys
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1990, Vol 22, Issue 4, p186
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2135614