Religiosity and fertility in the United States: The role of fertility intentions
Religiosity and fertility in the United States: The role of fertility intentions
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DOI：
10.1353/sof.0.0000
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发表时间：
2008-03-01
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影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Morgan, S. Philip
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作者：
Hayford, Sarah R.;Morgan, S. Philip
利用2002年全国家庭增长调查的数据，我们表明，那些认为宗教在日常生活中“非常重要”的妇女比那些认为宗教“有点重要”或“不重要”的妇女有更高的生育率和更高的计划生育率。“意外生育、生育年龄或推迟生育的程度等因素似乎不会导致生育率的宗教差异。这个答案引发了更根本的问题：这种更伟大宗教信仰的本质是什么？为什么宗教信仰越多的人想要更多的孩子？我们表明，那些说宗教是更重要的有更传统的性别和家庭的态度，这些态度的差异占生育差异的很大一部分。我们推测还有其他原因。
Using data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth, we show that women who report that religion is "very important" in their everyday life have both higher fertility and higher intended fertility than those saying religion is "somewhat important" or "not important." Factors such as unwanted fertility, age at childbearing or degree of fertility postponement seem not to contribute to religiosity differentials in fertility. This answer prompts more fundamental questions: what is the nature of this greater religiosity? And why do the more religious want more children? We show that those saying religion is more important have more traditional gender and family attitudes and that these attitudinal differences account for a substantial part of the fertility differential. We speculate regarding other contributing causes.