Determinants of Marriage and Childbearing Attitudes

这是一个研究当今美国社会生活的两个中心维度的建议：1)婚姻和婚姻过程，包括同居和非居住结合；2)生育，包括生育和抚养孩子。虽然我们从对婚姻和生育行为方面的兴趣开始，但这项研究集中在态度、价值观、信仰、偏好和社会规范的系统上，这些系统是婚姻、同居、生育和养育子女的潜在和提供动机的。尽管对婚姻和生育行为进行了广泛的研究，但对这些行为背后和激发这些行为的观念现象的研究相对较少。我们的研究计划侧重于决定年轻人婚姻和生育态度、价值观、信仰、偏好和对社会规范的看法的力量。我们的第一个目标是研究父母家庭的各个方面——包括社会经济因素、父母家庭的社会组织、父母的宗教信仰和参与、父母的婚姻和生育经历——如何影响在这些父母家庭中长大的孩子的观念现象。我们分析的第二个目的是解释父母的态度、价值观、信仰、偏好和社会规范的观点是如何影响孩子的想法的。我们的第三个目标转向了孩子们在学校、工作、婚姻和生育方面的经历对他们对婚姻和生育的看法的影响。实证分析将依赖三个数据来源，每个数据来源都包括两代人的关键指标：(1)全国儿童调查（NSC）；(2)全国家庭住户调查；(3)父母与子女的代际面板研究（IPSPC）。这三个数据集都为研究与婚姻和生育有关的观念现象的代际决定因素提供了必要的成分。

This is a proposal to study two central dimensions of social life in the United States today: 1) marriage and marital process, including cohabitation and nonresidential unions; and 2) childbearing, involving both the bearing and rearing of children. Although we begin from an interest in behavioral aspects of marriage and childbearing, this research centers on the systems of attitudes, values, beliefs, preferences, and social norms underlying and providing motivations for marriage, cohabitation, childbearing, and childrearing. Whereas extensive research has been conducted concerning marriage and childbearing behavior, relatively little work has been done on the ideational phenomena underlying and motivating these behaviors. Our research plan focuses on the forces determining marriage and childbearing attitudes, values, beliefs, preferences, and perceptions of social norms among young adults. Our first goal is to examine how aspects of the parental family- including socioeconomic factors, the social organization of the parental family, parental religious affiliation and participation, and parental marital and childbearing experience--influence ideational phenomena of the children growing up in these parental families. The second aim of our analysis is explication of the ways in which parental attitudes, values, beliefs, preference, and perspections of social norms influence children's ideas. Our third goal shifts to the impact of children's own experiences with school, work, marriage, and childbearing on their ideas about marriage and childbearing. The empirical analyses will rely on three data sources that each include key measures from two generations: (1) the National Survey of Children (NSC); (2) the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH); and (3) the Intergenerational Panel Study of Parents and Children (IPSPC). These three data sets each provides the essential ingredients for a study of the intergenerational determinants of ideational phenomena related to marriage and childbearing.