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- Title
When in America...
- Authors
Hollander, Dore
- Abstract
This article presents information on Puerto Rican women residing in the U S. mainland who are substantially more likely than those living in Puerto Rico to conceive and bear a child before marriage, largely because they are more likely to begin sexual activity at an early age. Pooled data from a 1982 islandwide survey of women of reproductive age and a 1985 survey of migrants living in New York show that mothers who were born in Puerto Rico and migrated to the United States, as well as those who were born and live on the mainland, were twice as likely as those born and living on the island to have completed a premarital first pregnancy. A tendency toward delayed marriage explained some of the difference for second-generation U.S. residents, but not for women born in Puerto Rico and living on the mainland. The variation was not attributable to differences in background characteristics. Given the consequences of premarital childbearing, researchers remark, these findings indicate that not all outcomes of assimilation are positive ones.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PUERTO Rican women; SURVEYS; PREGNANCY; IMMIGRANTS; HUMAN sexuality
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1997, Vol 29, Issue 2, p50
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article