Determinants of Marriage and Childbearing Attitudes

这是一个研究当今美国社会生活的两个核心方面的建议：1）婚姻和 婚姻过程，包括同居和同居; 2）生育，包括夫妻双方 生儿育女。虽然我们开始对婚姻的行为方面感兴趣， 生育，这项研究的中心系统的态度，价值观，信仰，偏好，和社会规范 为婚姻、同居、生育和抚养子女提供了基础和动机。而 关于婚姻和生育行为的研究已经进行了广泛的研究， 这些行为背后的概念现象和动机。我们的研究计划侧重于 关于决定婚姻和生育态度、价值观、信仰、偏好和 年轻人的社会规范。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、父母的宗教信仰以及 父母的婚姻和生育经验影响儿童的概念现象 在这样的父母家庭中长大我们分析的第二个目的是阐明 父母的态度、价值观、信仰、偏好和对社会规范的看法影响着儿童的想法。我们 第三个目标转向儿童自身在学校、工作、婚姻和生育方面的经历对儿童的影响。 他们对婚姻和生育的看法实证分析将依赖于三个数据源， 包括两代人的关键措施：（1）全国儿童调查;（2）全国儿童调查;（3）全国儿童调查;（4）全国儿童调查;（5）全国儿童调查。 （3）父母和子女的代际小组研究（IPSPC）。 这三个数据集都为研究代际决定因素提供了基本要素， 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.