Negro-White Differences in Decisions Regarding Illegitimate Children  

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Pope, Hallowell

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 31 no. 04 (Nov. 1969), page 756.

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The data for the study was collected from a sample of 254 Negro and 314 white unwed mothers (primiparas only) chosen from birth certificate information for 1960-1961 in selected North Carolina counties. The respondents were interviewed in the summer of 1962 (six months to two and one. half years after the illegitimate birth). The completed cases represent 32 percent of the white and 65 percent of Negro cases sampled. The present marital status of the mothers was as follows-white: 73 percent not married; 27 percent married (nine percent to the alleged father and 18 percent to some other man); Negro: 80 percent not married; 20 percent married (16 percent to the alleged father and four percent to some other man). Other findings were that the Negro woman more often than the white woman kept her child (95 percent vs. 62 percent), that the Negro woman was more often advised by others to do so, that she more often did not want to marry her sex partner after discovery of her pregnancy if she had not been planning marriage beforehand, that she more often associated with her sex partner after the birth if they were not married, and that she more often felt marriage to her sex partner in the future was a definite possibility. Two reasons for these findings were discussed: (1) Negroes have a lesser commitment to the norm of legitimacy than do whites, and (2) Negro women have less reason and desire than white women to marry-whether or not they are unmarried mothers. However, it was pointed out that, because of conceptual inadequacies and the lack of data, these two interpretations cannot be definitively supported.

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