Attitudes Toward Childbearing Among Young Parents  

Oleh:

Cernkovich, Stephen A. ; Giordano, Peggy C. ; Pugh, M.D. ; Groat, H. Theodore ; Swinford, Steven P.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 59 no. 3 (Aug. 1997), page 568-581.
Topik: value of children; race; childbearing; gender; unwanted pregnancy

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: J43 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Grounded in both cultural and rational choice theories of fertility, this article examines the positive and negative attitudes of young parents toward their own childbearing and childrearing experiences. With data from a subsample of 412 White and African American respondents, our analyses show marked differences in the combinations of variables that predict attitudes of childbearing rewards and regrets. Respondents who find childbearing most rewarding, are disproportionately White, female, married, and have positive feelings about their first pregnancies. Those holding regretful childbearing attitudes, in contrast, are disproportionately Black, materialistic have three or more children, and express negative feelings about their first pregnancies. Thus, race and retrospections concerning experiences of first pregnancy significantly predict both rewards and regrets. The findings are interpreted within the context of cultural ambivalence and competing wants regarding the meaning of children to parents in contemporary society.

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