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A theoretical analysis of antecedents of young couples’ fertility decisions and outcomes |
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| Authors: | Linda J Beckman Rhonda Aizenberg Alan B Forsythe Tom Day |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, 90024, Los Angeles, California 2. Public Safety/Planning and Development, Automobile Club of Southern California, 90007, Los Angeles, California 3. Department of Biomathematics, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, 90024, Los Angeles, California |
| Abstract: | Longitudinal survey data from 509 couples who at Time 1 interview had recently married or had their first child did not support the hypothesis that demographic factors influence fertility intentions, decisions, and outcomes only indirectly through their effects on attitudes and motivations. Husbands’ and wives’ attitudes exerted reciprocal influence on one another. However, while husbands’ sex-role traditionalism and motivation for parenthood strongly influenced wives’ traditionalism and motivation in the case of recently married couples, this pattern was reversed for riew parents. Birth control use was directly affected by wives’ fertility intentions, but not by husbands’ intentions. Difficulties in examining couple interaction variables such as relative power and the possible limitations of fitting these data to a complex theoretical model using LISREL are discussed. |
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