Ingredients of Fertility Decline: Access to Methods, Concept of Family Limitation, Some Social Change

1978 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 86
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Fertility Decline ◽  
Family Limitation

Fertility and Occupation: Mining Districts in Prewar Japan

1981 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-315
Author(s):  
Carl Mosk
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Transition ◽  
Fertility Decline ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Economic Costs ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Family Limitation ◽  
Fertility Differentials ◽  
Constrained Choice ◽  
Mining Districts

Many theories of demographic transition stem from attempts to explain fertility differentials across economic and social groups. These differentials typically emerge once a decline in natality commences. Thus it is commonly observed that the fertility of urban populations falls short of that recorded for agricultural districts, that the upper classes tend to precede the working classes in the adaptation of family limitation, and the like. These observations are, in turn, used to justify economic and sociological theories which, by associating both social status and economic costs and benefits with occupation and residence, account for the fertility decline in terms of status and constrained choice.

scholarly journals Fertility decline and social change: new trends and challenges

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 297
Author(s):  
Bali Ram
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Age Structure ◽  
Fertility Decline ◽  
Intergenerational Support ◽  
Population Stability ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Age Patterns

This article presents an overview of recent fertility declines and their effects on social change in both industrialized and industrializing countries. The focus is primarily on the levels and age patterns of fertility, which influence social change through three major mechanisms, reductions in population growth, modifications in age structure, and changes in family structure. Some future prospects are also discussed, especially in the view of the viability of immigration as a solution to population stability, graying of the industrialized world, intergenerational support, and loneliness.

scholarly journals Social change, migration and pregnancy intervals

1987 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Pool ◽  
J. E. Sceats ◽  
A. Hooper ◽  
J. Huntsman ◽  
E. Plummer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Family Limitation ◽  
Pregnancy Intervals ◽  
Show Evidence ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
Family Building

SummaryMaternity histories from residents of a Pacific Island society, Tokelau, and migrants to New Zealand, are analysed using life table techniques. Inter-cohort differentials in patterns of family formation were found in the total Tokelau-origin population. The process of accelerated timing and spacing of pregnancies was more pronounced among migrants who tended to marry later, be pregnant at marriage, have shorter inter-pregnancy intervals at lower parities and to show evidence of family limitation occurring at higher parities. These results point to the significance of changing patterns of social control on strategies of family building.

The First Scottish Fertility Decline

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Anderson ◽  
Corinne Roughley
Keyword(s):  
Fertility Decline ◽  
Family Limitation ◽  
Over Time

The marked variations in the distribution of family sizes over time are further explored, as also are the major variations between women married to fathers in different occupations. The significance of very small families in fertility constraint is explored. The role in Scotland of possible methods of family limitation at different dates is examined, in the context of ongoing historical debates about when, if ever, most couples began consciously to ‘plan’ the size of their families, and at what point in their marriages they may have done so. In the same context, Scottish evidence is reviewed on the possible reasons for the timing of the onset of fertility decline and its spread through to the 1930s.

Fertility, Nuptiality, and Family Limitation Among the Wends of Serbin, Texas, 1854 to 1920

1988 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth H. Fliess
Keyword(s):  
Fertility Decline ◽  
Marital Fertility ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Fertility Rates ◽  
National Scale ◽  
Birth Intervals ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Age At First Marriage ◽  
Family Limitation ◽  
Males And Females

The decline of American fertility on a national scale is a well-known and well-documented phenomenon, but little is known about fertility decline at the community level. Are immigrant groups really different or are they affected by the same factors and respond to them in the same manner as native-born populations? This essay investigates the fertility and nuptiality experience of the Wends of Serbin, Texas using age-specific fertility rates, total marital fertility rates, the index of family limitation, age at last birth, birth intervals and age at first marriage for both males and females. The Wends are shown to have experienced fertility decline in the same magnitude as the rest of the country though they begin and end at higher levels.

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