Factors Affecting Catholic Wives' Conformity to Their Church Magisterium's Position on Birth Control  

Oleh:

Westoff, Charles F. ; Potvin, Raymond H. ; Ryder, Norman B.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 30 no. 02 (May 1968), page 263.

Isi artikel

The data reported here derive from the National Fertility Study, a probability sample of 5,600 United States wives, surveyed in late 1965. The proportion of Catholic wives using methods of contraception other than rhythm increased since 1955 and became a majority by 1965. This type of nonconforming is related strongly and inversely to such measures of religiousness as frequency of receiving communion and, less directly, to measures of socioeconomic status and ethnic background. There is an especially pervasive tendency for contraceptive nonconformity to be related to age at marriage, independently of other measured variables. A comparison of data by birth cohort and age for comparable studies in 1955, 1960, and 1965 reveals a systematic reduction, and at progressively earlier ages, in the proportion of Catholic women conforming to their Church Magisterium's position on birth control. The trend prevails for all socioeconomic subdivisions and degrees of religiousness. Between 1955 and 1960 those with less education showed the greater increase in the use of methods other than rhythm; between 1960 and 1965, those with more education showed the greater increase. This reversal may be associated with the advent of oral contraception and the publicity about the theological debates within the Catholic church.

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