Children in the Family: Relationship of Number and Spacing to Marital Success  

Oleh:

Christensen, Harold T.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 30 no. 02 (May 1968), page 283.

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Relevant research is drawn upon to try to determine if marital success is in any way dependent upon number and spacing of children in the family. It is concluded that this question cannot be answered satisfactorily without taking into account the values parents hold regarding number and spacing. Value is seen as an intervening variable, and it is "value-behavior discrepancy," more than behavior alone, that is likely to cause difficulty. In other words, more important to marital success than just how many children and how long between them is how successful the couple becomes in controlling number and spacing according to their desires, or else in adjusting their desires to conform with reality, or some of both-but, in any event, reducing the discrepancy between desire and occurrence. The article ends with a recognition of limitations in this partially tested theory and with brief suggestions for" next steps" in its further development.

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