Unwed Mothers and Their Sex Partners  

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Pope, Hallowell

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 29 no. 03 (Aug. 1967), page 555.

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Data from 387 white and 552 Negro women who were not married when they had the first child were used to characterize the prepregnancy relationship between unwed mothers and the fathers of their children.The universe sampled was those women in selected North Carolina counties recorded on 1960-1961 birth certificates as mothers of illegitimate children. Field interviews were conducted in 1962, with 32 percent of the white and 65 percent of the Negro women sampled providing completed schedules. Only a minority of these women had a liaison unknown to and in isolation from social ties of family and friends. Before becoming pregnant, most of the women had "gone with" their sex partners exclusively for at least six months, were committed to them (indicated by regular dating or planning marriage), and were in love with them. The comparison of the sex partners' social statuses (age, education, and social class) indicates that these couples were similar to courting couples generally, Most of the women had sex partners who were never married; however, 13 percent of the white women had partners who were married and living with their wives.The data supported the conclusion that, in general, these" courtships" cannot be characterized as deviant, exploitative, or lacking in exposure to the normal social controls. Reasons were discussed for Negroes' less often planning to get married at the time of their pregnancies even though,in comparison to whites, they were more frequently in a long-term courting relationship.

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