Voluntary and involuntary childlessness among Catholic and non-Catholic women: are the patterns converging? Academic Article

abstract

• Data from 1976 and 1982 show Catholics less likely than non-Catholics to be voluntarily childless and more likely to be involuntarily childless. Declining differences in fertility and contraception are discussed.

authors

• Poston, Dudley

published proceedings

• Soc Biol

author list (cited authors)

• Poston, D. L.

citation count

• 7

complete list of authors

• Poston, DL

publication date

• January 1990

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• Biodemography and Social Biology  Journal

keywords

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Catholicism
• Contraception Behavior
• Female
• Fertility
• Humans
• Retrospective Studies

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/19485565.1990.9988764

start page

• 251

end page

• 265

volume

• 37

issue

• 3-4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19485565.1990.9988764