Determinants of Marriage and Childbearing Attitudes

这是一项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；以及2)生育，涉及双方 生育和养育孩子。尽管我们从对婚姻的行为方面的兴趣开始， 生育，这项研究的中心是态度、价值观、信仰、偏好和社会规范的系统 为婚姻、同居、生育和育儿提供潜在的动机和提供动机。鉴于 人们对婚姻和生育行为进行了广泛的研究，但相对较少的工作 已经对这些行为背后的概念现象和动机进行了研究。我们的研究计划将重点放在 关于决定婚姻和生育态度、价值观、信仰、偏好和观念的力量 年轻人中的社会规范。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、父母婚育经历对儿童的观念现象有影响 在这些父母的家庭里长大。我们分析的第二个目的是解释 父母的态度、价值观、信仰、偏好和对社会规范的看法会影响孩子的想法。我们的 第三个目标转移到孩子自己在学校、工作、婚姻和生育方面的经历对 他们对婚姻和生育的看法。实证分析将依赖于三个数据来源，每个来源 包括两代人的主要措施：(1)全国儿童调查(NSC)；(2)全国调查 家庭与家庭研究(NSFH)；以及(3)父母与子女代际小组研究(IPSPC)。 这三个数据集都为研究人与人之间的代际决定因素提供了基本成分 与婚姻和生育有关的观念现象。

This is a proposal to study two central dimensions of social life in the United States today: 1) marriage and the 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, preferences, 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.