Add to ORKGSmall-family norms in industrial societies, and large-family norms in developing societies, present quite different motivational problems respecting population control. In the former, means are now more important than motives, while in the latter just the opposite is true. Yet programs of family planning in developing nations continue to operate with the assumption that means are more important than motives. Results of cross-cultural research on the social and psychological factors affecting fertility may serve better than clinic-based efforts, in the long run, to reverse the present rapid population growth in developing societies
<p>Family systems, as normative frameworks in which family processes unfold, are believed to exert a...
How does the decision to have a child vary across countries, and what differences between countries ...
Developed countries have experienced both some population growth and unprecedented declines in ferti...
Author Institution: Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OhioSmal...
To understand fertility behaviours in countries where effective methods of birth control are widely ...
Do governments have the right to restrict individual freedom and right to have fewer or more childre...
In Bangladesh, the total fertility rate declined from more than six children per woman of reproducti...
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/Social-psychological variable...
The rapid population growth in developing countries in the middle of the 20th century led to fears o...
The history of the population control movement is one replete with controversies and where narrative...
Postindustrial demographic studies have analyzed the decline in fertility over the past several deca...
Initial results from the REPRO project show that the theory of planned behavior from social psycholo...
The central focus of the paper is the attempt by demographers, sociologists, economists and psycholo...
Personal characteristics, attitudes and beliefs, which are conditioned by socioeconomic circumstance...
This thesis presents a comparison over time of the fertility control policies of India, Pakistan, Ba...
<p>Family systems, as normative frameworks in which family processes unfold, are believed to exert a...
How does the decision to have a child vary across countries, and what differences between countries ...
Developed countries have experienced both some population growth and unprecedented declines in ferti...
Author Institution: Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OhioSmal...
To understand fertility behaviours in countries where effective methods of birth control are widely ...
Do governments have the right to restrict individual freedom and right to have fewer or more childre...
In Bangladesh, the total fertility rate declined from more than six children per woman of reproducti...
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/Social-psychological variable...
The rapid population growth in developing countries in the middle of the 20th century led to fears o...
The history of the population control movement is one replete with controversies and where narrative...
Postindustrial demographic studies have analyzed the decline in fertility over the past several deca...
Initial results from the REPRO project show that the theory of planned behavior from social psycholo...
The central focus of the paper is the attempt by demographers, sociologists, economists and psycholo...
Personal characteristics, attitudes and beliefs, which are conditioned by socioeconomic circumstance...
This thesis presents a comparison over time of the fertility control policies of India, Pakistan, Ba...
<p>Family systems, as normative frameworks in which family processes unfold, are believed to exert a...
How does the decision to have a child vary across countries, and what differences between countries ...
Developed countries have experienced both some population growth and unprecedented declines in ferti...