60:30344 Anderson,
Robert N.; Saenz, Rogelio. Structural determinants of
Mexican American intermarriage, 1975-1980. Social Science
Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 2, Jun 1994. 414-30 pp. Austin, Texas. In Eng.
"This paper uses the structural theoretical perspective and data
from the 1980 [U.S.] Census to examine the impact of pertinent
structural determinants of Mexican American intermarriage with Anglos
across 53 metropolitan statistical areas in the southwest United
States. The findings show that opportunity for contact, levels of
Spanish language maintenance, and internal status diversity are
important statistically. This lends general support for the structural
theoretical perspective as it relates to the understanding of Mexican
American intermarriage with Anglos."
Correspondence: R. N.
Anderson, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Sociology, 211
Oswald Tower, University Park, PA 16802. Location: Princeton
University Library (PR).
60:30345 Bartiaux,
Francoise. The declining birth rate and the marriage
market: Italy 1930-1950. [Denatalite et marche matrimonial: le
cas de l'Italie en 1930-1950.] Population, Vol. 49, No. 1, Jan-Feb
1994. 91-117 pp. Paris, France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng; Spa.
"The
decline in the birth rate recorded in Italy between 1916 and 1919 began
to affect [the] marriage market as early as the midthirties. This
imbalance was resolved through major changes in the relative ages of
the spouses, which continue to be apparent in a couple analysis based
on individual data drawn from the Census of 1981. The role of
mortality and of widowhood...is assessed. Their impact turns out to be
minimal. The article concludes with a discussion of the influence of
circumstances that prevailed at the time these marriages took place
(before, during and after the Second World
War)."
Correspondence: F. Bartiaux, Universite Catholique
de Louvain, B.P. 17, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:30346 Bender,
Rosemary. Marriages in Canada, 1992. [Mariages au
Canada, 1992.] Health Reports/Rapports sur la Sante, Vol. 5, No. 4,
1993. 362-8 pp. Ottawa, Canada. In Eng; Fre.
Data on marriages in
Canada in 1992 are presented by province and territory, age and sex,
mean age at marriage, previous marital status, and religion. Some
international comparisons are included.
Correspondence: R.
Bender, Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Health Information,
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0T6, Canada. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
60:30347 Bideau,
Alain; Brunet, Guy; Heyer, Evelyne; Plauchu, Henri.
Analyzing population structure through the study of consanguinity:
the example of the Valserine Valley from the eighteenth century to the
present. [La consanguinite, revelateur de la structure de la
population: l'exemple de la vallee de la Valserine du XVIIIe siecle a
nos jours.] Population, Vol. 49, No. 1, Jan-Feb 1994. 145-60 pp. Paris,
France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng; Spa.
"The consanguineous marriage
rate is usually estimated by demographer-historians from dispensation
declarations in marriage certificates. A comparison of such
declarations with other sources, such as diocesan registers and
genealogies, shows that these measures are unreliable. Analysing
genealogies of five villages in the Valserine valley [in France] from
the end [of the] seventeenth century to the present makes it possible
to establish the average consanguinity ratio within the population.
Genealogies do, furthermore, take into account instances of more remote
consanguinity (beyond the fourth generation). They demonstrate the
existence of subpopulations in which spouse selection and mobility are
different. Consanguinity is a trait peculiar to a limited group of
families who have lived in these villages over the three centuries
studied."
Correspondence: A. Bideau, Universite Lumiere
Lyon 2, MRASH, Centre Pierre Leon, URA 223, 86 rue Pasteur, 69365 Lyons
Cedex 07, France. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
60:30348 Burch,
Thomas K. Theory, computers and the parameterization of
demographic behaviour. In: International Population
Conference/Congres International de la Population: Montreal 1993,
Volume 3. 1993. 377-88 pp. International Union for the Scientific Study
of Population [IUSSP]: Liege, Belgium. In Eng.
The author compares
the functionality and the acceptance within the academic community of
two models used to estimate first marriage. He finds that "twenty
years after their publication, the Coale-McNeil model has become the
standard model of first marriage, while the Hernes model has been
relatively neglected by mainstream demography....Some part of the
explanation must lie with the intellectual character of the discipline
of demography."
Correspondence: T. K. Burch, University of
Western Ontario, Department of Sociology, Population Studies Centre,
London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Canada. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
60:30349 Fisher,
Helen. The nature of romantic love. Journal of NIH
Research, Vol. 6, No. 4, Apr 1994. 59-64 pp. Washington, D.C. In Eng.
"Romantic love (characterized by at least two emotional stages,
attraction and attachment) is a cultural universal. I propose that the
human neurophysiology for these emotions evolved in our first hominid
forebears some 4 million years ago as chemical mechanisms designed to
initiate affiliation and sustain ancestral pair bonds through the
infancy of a single altricial (helpless) child, a period of about four
years. Serial monogamy during reproductive years has had adaptive
advantages throughout human evolution, and natural selection has
resulted in primary human mating behaviors that are still visible in
worldwide patterns of marriage, divorce, and remarriage, as well as in
the characteristic ebb and flow of human romantic
love."
Correspondence: H. Fisher, 65 East 80th Street, New
York, NY 10021. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:30350 Hammes,
Winfried. Divorces 1992. [Ehescheidungen 1992.]
Wirtschaft und Statistik, No. 2, Feb 1994. 128-33 pp. Wiesbaden,
Germany. In Ger.
Information is presented on divorces in Germany in
1992. An overview of trends in the former East and West Germany since
1960 is first provided. The analysis then focuses on divorce by
duration of marriage and marriage cohort, age of divorced persons, and
number of children involved.
Location: Princeton University
Library (PF).
60:30351 Ilyina,
Irina. Marital-status composition of the Soviet
population. In: Demographic trends and patterns in the Soviet
Union before 1991, edited by Wolfgang Lutz, Sergei Scherbov, and Andrei
Volkov. 1994. 167-83 pp. Routledge: New York, New York/London, England;
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis [IIASA]:
Laxenburg, Austria. In Eng.
Trends in marital status in the former
Soviet Union are analyzed for the period 1897-1989, with a focus on the
1979-1989 decade. Data presented cover those proportions never married,
married, divorced, and widowed, by sex and ethnic group. The author
notes that "in spite of fundamental changes in the institution of
marriage in the 20th century...there were no essential changes in
population marital structures....The exception is the replacement of
the category of widowed by the category of
divorced...."
Correspondence: I. Ilyina, State Committee of
the Russian Federation on Statistics, Institute of Statistics and
Economic Research, Moscow, Russia. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
60:30352 Lapins,
Andis. Teenage marriages in Latvia. In: Demographic
trends and patterns in the Soviet Union before 1991, edited by Wolfgang
Lutz, Sergei Scherbov, and Andrei Volkov. 1994. 211-7 pp. Routledge:
New York, New York/London, England; International Institute for Applied
Systems Analysis [IIASA]: Laxenburg, Austria. In Eng.
"This
investigation studies the demographic, economic, and social problems of
married couples under age 18 and the formation of their families. The
study was organized in Riga, Latvia. The sample was drawn from couples
who were permitted to marry under the age of 18....All the marriages
were registered between 1987 and 1988." Consideration is given to
family size and parity, reasons for marrying including premarital
pregnancy, living conditions, satisfaction with family life, and
attitudes toward sex behavior.
Correspondence: A. Lapins,
Latvian State University, Riga, Latvia. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
60:30353 Manting,
D. More separations than divorces. [Meer scheidingen
dan echtscheidingen.] Maandstatistiek van de Bevolking, Vol. 42, No. 4,
Apr 1994. 6-8 pp. Voorburg, Netherlands. In Dut. with sum. in Eng.
"In the Netherlands, the yearly numbers of divorces have been
rather stable since the mid eighties. Yet the numbers of separations
of couples are on the increase. This is caused by two factors. First
of all, more and more women cohabit at some point in their
lives....Secondly, cohabiting couples have a much higher likelihood of
disruption than married couples. About one in seven women born in
1950-1954 was ever divorced before age 38. If disruption of
cohabitation is added to this figure, one in five women born in the
early fifties has ever separated. For more recent birth cohorts,
difference between divorce and disruption of both marriage and
cohabitation is much larger. Of women born in the early sixties, only
4 per cent were ever divorced before age 28, whereas 17 percent of
these women were ever separated."
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
60:30354 McCaa,
Robert. Marriageways in Mexico and Spain, 1500-1900.
Continuity and Change, Vol. 9, No. 1, May 1994. 11-43 pp. Cambridge,
England. In Eng. with sum. in Fre; Ger.
"How did formal marriage,
cohabitation and concubinage--what I call 'marriageways'--differ
between Spain and Mexico during the early modern period? The
dissimilarities in ages at coupling and forms of cohabitation are much
greater than previously suspected....After four centuries of
extraordinary regional and racial differences in the frequency,
precocity and types of unions, a single Mexican pattern of civil
marriage emerged toward the middle of the twentieth century. It was
preceded by an enormous profusion of types of unions, fostered by the
great inequalities of power between the sexes and social groups....In
Spain, the transition to a Western European pattern continued into the
nineteenth century and beyond, but as female age at marriage rose...so
too did illegitimacy. European historians attribute these developments
to urbanization, rising economic opportunities for women and expanding
sexual liberties."
Correspondence: R. McCaa, University of
Minnesota, Department of History, Minneapolis, MN 55455.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:30355 McElhaney,
Lori J. The relationship between marital quality and
children in later life remarriages: an exploratory study.
Population Research Institute Working Paper, No. 94-09, [1994]. 32 pp.
Pennsylvania State University, Population Research Institute:
University Park, Pennsylvania. In Eng.
"The purpose of this study
was to explore aspects of parent-children relations [in the United
States] and their effects on marital quality in remarriages started in
later life. Specifically, this study investigated parent-children
relation indicators of coresidence of children, quality of
parent-children relationships, and contact with non-residential adult
children, along with possible
interactions."
Correspondence: Pennsylvania State
University, Population Research Institute, 601 Oswald Tower, University
Park, PA 16802-6411. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
60:30356 Oderkirk,
Jillian. Marriage in Canada: changing beliefs and
behaviours, 1600-1990. Canadian Social Trends, No. 33, Summer
1994. 2-7 pp. Ottawa, Canada. In Eng.
The author reviews changes in
marriage patterns in Canada for the period from 1600 to 1990. She
finds that "although these changes have affected the stability and
exclusivity of marriage, they have not caused the institution to
disappear. Indeed, the majority of Canadians are still expected to
marry, at least once, before their 50th birthday. Compared with
twenty-five years ago, however, marriage is now less prevalent, occurs
later in life and often does not last long enough for couples to raise
their families."
Correspondence: J. Oderkirk, Canadian
Social Trends, 7th Floor, Jean Talon Building, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0T6,
Canada. Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
60:30357
Oppenheimer, Valerie K. Women's rising employment
and the future of the family in industrial societies. Population
and Development Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, Jun 1994. 293-342, 495-6, 498
pp. New York, New York. In Eng. with sum. in Fre; Spa.
"The author
critically assesses the theoretical and empirical bases of the popular
view that marriage is a declining institution in the United States and
that this decline is an inevitable concomitant of the growth of women's
economic independence in industrial societies....Focusing particularly
on Becker's specialization and trading model of the gain to marriage,
the author investigates several facets of the theory: the historical
fit between the major rises in women's employment and trends in marital
and fertility behavior; the extent to which the marital behavior
observed in recent years matches the marital behavior predicted by the
theory; and the degree to which micro-level empirical research supports
the theory. The article concludes that both macro- and micro-level
evidence for the theory is weak. It suggests that parental sex-role
specialization puts nuclear families at risk because there is rarely
more than one specialist of each type in a
family."
Correspondence: V. K. Oppenheimer, University of
California, Department of Sociology, Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
90024. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:30358 Pollard,
John H.; Hohn, Charlotte. The interaction between the
sexes. Zeitschrift fur Bevolkerungswissenschaft, Vol. 19, No. 2,
1993-1994. 203-28 pp. Wiesbaden, Germany. In Eng. with sum. in Fre;
Ger.
"In recent times there has been considerable discussion of the
wide disparity between the numbers of unmarried males and unmarried
females in the younger and mid adult ages in Germany....To study this
phenomenon and understand it, a two-sex population model is
essential....In this paper, we develop a two-sex model using
behavioural arguments, and show that the model obeys criteria which
have been prescribed by earlier writers....The model is relatively easy
to use, produces consistent results, and projects marriage numbers
which accord with intuitive expectation. It also leads us to the
conclusion that the excess of unmarried males at the younger
marriageable ages, observed in Germany, is a phenomenon to be expected
in all western-type populations in which more males than females are
born and there is a strong preference for a partner about the same age,
with the bride a little younger than the groom on
average."
Correspondence: J. H. Pollard, Macquarie
University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
60:30359 Prinz,
Christopher. Patterns of marriage and cohabitation in
Europe, with emphasis on Sweden. Popnet, No. 24, Spring 1994. 1-11
pp. Laxenburg, Austria. In Eng.
"This article attempts to describe
the reasons for the emergence and the rapid increase of cohabitation
[in Sweden] and can be used as the basis for assumptions about the
future of cohabitation in other European countries. In addition, the
article analyzes some interesting differences between married and
cohabiting couples."
Correspondence: C. Prinz,
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 2361 Laxenburg,
Austria. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:30360 Prioux,
France. The ups and downs of marriage in Austria.
Population. English Selection, Vol. 5, 1993. 153-82 pp. Paris, France.
In Eng.
The author examines reasons for fluctuations in marriage
patterns in Austria since 1950. "We propose to investigate here not
only the immediate impact of these perturbations in terms of first
marriage rates, non-marital fertility and legitimations, but also the
possible longer-term effects, by studying proportions never married in
birth cohorts and fertility and divorce rates in marriage cohorts;
finally, we shall consider total fertility trends for the most recent
period." The impact of changes in Austria's fiscal policy with regard
to newlyweds is considered.
Correspondence: F. Prioux,
Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques, 27 rue du Commandeur, 75675
Paris Cedex 14, France. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
60:30361 Rao,
Vijayendra. The rising price of husbands: a hedonic
analysis of dowry increases in rural India. Journal of Political
Economy, Vol. 101, No. 4, Aug 1993. 666-77 pp. Chicago, Illinois. In
Eng.
"Dowries in South Asia have steadily risen over the last 40
years and now often amount to over 50 percent of a household's assets.
This paper attempts to investigate the reasons behind this increase.
It adapts Rosen's implicit market model to the Indian marriage market
and tests predictions from the model with data from six villages in
South Central India and from the Indian census. It is found that a
'marriage squeeze' caused by population growth, resulting in larger
younger cohorts and hence a surplus of women in the marriage market,
has played a significant role in the rise in
dowries."
Correspondence: V. Rao, University of Michigan,
Population Studies Center, 1225 South University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI
48104-2590. Location: Princeton University Library (FST).
60:30362 Sardon,
Jean-Paul. Women's first marriage rates in Europe:
elements for a typology. Population. English Selection, Vol. 5,
1993. 119-52 pp. Paris, France. In Eng.
"In recent years, Eastern
and Western Europe have displayed very different marriage
patterns....Does the current division between Eastern and Western
Europe reflect a revival of the Western model in its home territory,
and was the 'marriage boom' nothing but a temporary digression? Or is
it the present situation which is only a particular moment in time,
when Eastern Europe, with her still early, universal marriage pattern,
is merely lagging behind, before following in Western footsteps--fewer,
later marriages--when her societies have modernized? We propose to
investigate these questions by analysing period and cohort trends in
women's nuptiality in 21 European countries. We shall use various
methods, in particular hierarchical cluster analysis, to identify
'nearnesses' between countries."
Correspondence: J.-P.
Sardon, Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques, 27 rue du
Commandeur, 75675 Paris Cedex 14, France. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
60:30363 Uchida,
Eiichi; Araki, Shunich; Murata, Katsuyuki. Socioeconomic
factors affecting first marriage and birth rates by sex and age in the
total Japanese population. Journal of Human Ergology, Vol. 21, No.
2, 1992. 107-18 pp. Tokyo, Japan. In Eng.
"The effects of a wide
variety of social, economic and demographic factors on age-specific
first marriage and live birth rates in 46 Japanese prefectures were
analyzed using stepwise regression analysis for 1970 and again for 1975
after classification of those twenty-two factors by factor analysis.
The principal results were as follows: (1) high employment (high
income) and social mobility caused by industrialization had a strongly
positive influence on the first marriage and birth rates for young
females, (2) rural and urban residence factors had positive effects on
the marriage and birth rates for young males and females, respectively,
(3) old age factor had an inverse effect on the marriage rates for both
males and females over a wide range of ages, and (4) young age factor
promoted the birth rate for young and middle-aged
females."
Correspondence: S. Araki, University of Tokyo,
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health, Tokyo 113, Japan.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:30364 Wang, Feng;
Tuma, Nancy B. Changes in Chinese marriage patterns during
the twentieth century. In: International Population
Conference/Congres International de la Population: Montreal 1993,
Volume 3. 1993. 337-52 pp. International Union for the Scientific Study
of Population [IUSSP]: Liege, Belgium. In Eng.
"In this paper we
focus on broad changes in marriage patterns of both women and men in
China in the current century. We first document how people's
socioeconomic characteristics have changed across several birth
cohorts, ranging from people born between 1900 and 1925 to ones born
between 1960 and 1964. Secondly, we provide evidence of changes in
marriage patterns for people born during several time periods in this
century. Finally, we link changes in marriage patterns to other broad
changes in the society, such as changes of residence, education, and
occupation. We attempt to link changes across birth cohorts to changes
in social and political environments, including changes in governmental
policies."
Correspondence: F. Wang, University of Hawaii,
Department of Sociology, 2444 Dole Street, Honolulu, HI 96822.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:30365 Westoff,
Charles F.; Blanc, Ann K.; Nyblade, Laura. Marriage and
entry into parenthood. DHS Comparative Studies, No. 10, Mar 1994.
vi, 42 pp. Calverton, Maryland. In Eng.
"The primary purpose of
this report is to present comparable information on marriage and first
birth for countries participating in the DHS program. The report is
divided into seven sections: the next section describes DHS procedures
for the collection of data on marriage and first birth and discusses
issues related to data quality; the following two sections present a
set of international comparisons for DHS countries on several measures
of current marital status and marital stability; the fifth section
focuses on exposure to childbearing among never-married women; age at
marriage and age at first birth are described in section 6, and the
results are summarized in section 7."
Correspondence: Macro
International, Demographic and Health Surveys, 11785 Beltsville Drive,
Suite 300, Calverton, MD 20705. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
60:30366 Zeng, Yi;
Wang, Deming. An event history analysis of remarriages of
females in China. In: International Population Conference/Congres
International de la Population: Montreal 1993, Volume 3. 1993. 323-35
pp. International Union for the Scientific Study of Population [IUSSP]:
Liege, Belgium. In Eng.
"This paper provides age/duration specific
remarriage rates and the findings on the socio-demographic determinants
of remarriage in China based on an event history analysis. The next
section will present a description of the data and the methodology used
for this study and the following sections will deal with the results
and discussion of the estimates."
Correspondence: Y. Zeng,
Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
60:30367 Abma, Joyce
C. Transitions to adulthood among young women: the
sequencing of nest-leaving, marriage, and first birth. Pub. Order
No. DA9401193. 1993. 183 pp. University Microfilms International: Ann
Arbor, Michigan. In Eng.
This study, prepared as a doctoral
dissertation at Ohio State University, "discusses the dynamics leading
to the sequences of events from a decision-making perspective. Using
event-history data from a contemporary cohort of young women, analyses
focus on the effects of childhood family background, distinguishing
between five types of families, on the sequencing of nest-leaving,
marriage, and first birth for whites, blacks, and
Hispanics."
Correspondence: University Microfilms
International, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, A: Humanities
and Social Sciences 54(8).
60:30368 Beets,
Gijs; Cliquet, Robert; Dooghe, Gilbert; de Jong Gierveld,
Jenny. Population and family in the Low Countries 1992:
family and labour. NIDI/CBGS Publication, No. 26, ISBN
90-265-1342-9. 1993. 268 pp. Swets and Zeitlinger: Berwyn,
Pennsylvania/Amsterdam, Netherlands. In Eng.
This is the latest in
a series designed to bring work originally published in Dutch to the
attention of a wider audience through translation into English. This
volume presents nine studies by scholars from the Netherlands and
Belgium on aspects of family and female labor force participation.
Related topics, such as the division of labor within the family, the
transition to adulthood by female adolescents, income distribution, and
childcare, are addressed. The final chapter describes recent trends in
population and the family in the two countries.
For a previous
report for 1991, see 58:20021.
Correspondence: Swets and
Zeitlinger, Heereweg 347B, 2161 CA Lisse, Netherlands.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:30369 Belliveau,
Jo-Anne; Oderkirk, Jillian; Silver, Cynthia. Common-law
unions. The Quebec difference. Canadian Social Trends, No. 33,
Summer 1994. 8-12 pp. Ottawa, Canada. In Eng.
The trend toward
common-law unions in Canada, and especially in Quebec, is examined,
with a focus on the period since 1981. The authors find that "although
marriage is not as common today as in the past, especially among young
people, most Canadians are still choosing to live as couples....In
Quebec, however, more so than in other provinces, common-law unions are
becoming increasingly prevalent among older couples and those having
children. As a result, the characteristics of common-law families are
beginning to resemble those of married-couple families. This suggests
that common-law unions may be becoming more of an alternative than a
prelude to marriage, at least among some couples in
Quebec."
Correspondence: J.-A. Belliveau, Canadian Social
Trends, 7th Floor, Jean Talon Building, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0T6,
Canada. Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
60:30370 Das Gupta,
Monica. Life course perspectives on women's autonomy and
health outcomes. PSTC Working Paper Series, No. 94-03, May 1994.
29 pp. Brown University, Population Studies and Training Center [PSTC]:
Providence, Rhode Island. In Eng.
"This paper examines how
different patterns of kinship and inheritance affect intergenerational
relationships and the ramifications of gender inequality. Peasant
societies of pre-industrial Northern Europe are contrasted with those
of contemporary South Asia to illuminate some of these
relationships....The convergence of low autonomy due to youth as well
as sex amongst young married women in South Asia means that women are
at the lowest point in their lifecycle in terms of autonomy during
their peak childbearing years. As shown in this paper, this has
considerable implications for demographic and health outcomes: in
terms of poorer child survival, slower fertility decline, and poorer
reproductive health."
This paper was prepared for the 1994 Annual
Meeting of the Population Association of
America.
Correspondence: Brown University, Population
Studies and Training Center, Box 1916, Providence, RI 02912.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:30371 DaVanzo,
Julie; Rahman, M. Omar. American families: trends and
policy issues. RAND Paper, No. P-7854, Dec 16, 1993. xxxi, 107 pp.
RAND: Santa Monica, California. In Eng.
"In this paper, we review
the demographic trends--in marriage, divorce, fertility, and labor
force participation--that have affected American families. We
summarize what is known about the determinants and consequences of
these trends and the connections among them, and then discuss the
policy issues that they raise. We attempt to provide a broad overview
designed to highlight some of the major issues."
For two related
papers, see Population Index, Vol. 59, No. 3, pp. 350-86; and No. 4,
pp. 547-66.
Correspondence: RAND, 1700 Main Street, P.O.
Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
60:30372 Davey,
Judith A. Monitoring New Zealand households: an analysis
of trends by life stage and ethnicity. New Zealand Population
Review, Vol. 19, No. 1-2, May-Nov 1993. 125-42 pp. Wellington, New
Zealand. In Eng.
"Changes in household and family forms, and
differences between groups based on age and ethnicity, are relevant to
our understanding of society and to the development of social policy.
This paper looks at household patterns [in New Zealand] by age group
and changes in these patterns over the 1981-1991 period. The analysis,
using a database developed [by the New Zealand Planning Council's
Social Monitoring Group], highlights the importance of disaggregation
by ethnicity and of growing social
diversity."
Correspondence: J. A. Davey, Victoria
University, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, P.O. Box 600,
Wellington, New Zealand. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
60:30373 Duenas,
Guiomar. Society, family, and gender in Santa Fe, New
Granada, until the end of the colony. [Sociedad, familia y genero
en Santafe, Nueva Granada, a finales de la colonia.] Latin American
Population History Bulletin, No. 25, Spring 1994. 2-22 pp. Minneapolis,
Minnesota. In Spa.
The author examines family structure in Santa
Fe, the capital of New Granada, a Spanish colony that included
Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela. The focus is on the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He finds that social class
structure was closely related to ethnic group and skin color, and that
the sex ratio was biased toward women. Women also headed nearly 50% of
all households. Data are mainly from the 1801 smallpox
census.
Correspondence: G. Duenas, Universidad Nacional de
Colombia, Departamento de Historia, Calle 86 No. 50-19, Bogota,
Colombia. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:30374 Finland.
Tilastokeskus (Helsinki, Finland). The Finnish
family. [Suomalainen perhe.] Vaesto/Befolkning/Population 1994,
No. 5, ISBN 951-47-8723-4. 1994. 192 pp. Helsinki, Finland. In Fin.
This collection of studies describes the recent evolution of family
structure in Finland. Consideration is given to demographic aging,
decreased family size, and changes in the labor force and in the
division of labor. Public policy and family legislation responses to
new family structures are described.
Correspondence:
Tilastokeskus, PL 504, 00101 Helsinki, Finland. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:30375 Grundy,
Emily. The living arrangements of elderly people.
Reviews in Clinical Gerontology, No. 2, 1992. 353-61 pp. London,
England. In Eng.
"In order to assess possible future trends in the
living arrangements of elderly people and their implications, we need
to understand the causes of...relatively recent changes. Analysts have
variously stressed demographic trends, economic factors and behavioural
or cultural shifts as major influences on changing household patterns.
These arguments are reviewed [in this article]." Aspects considered
include the availability of spouse and children, coresidence between
elderly parents and children, cultural factors, income, and health and
health care. The primary geographical focus is on the United Kingdom,
with some additional information for the United States and selected
other developed countries.
Correspondence: E. Grundy,
King's College, Age Concern Institute for Gerontology, Cornwall House
Annexe, Waterloo Road, London SE1 8TX, England. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:30376 Heaton, Tim
B.; Jacobson, Cardell K. Race differences in changing
family demographics in the 1980s. Journal of Family Issues, Vol.
15, No. 2, Jun 1994. 290-308 pp. Newbury Park, California. In Eng.
"In this article, we explore the degree to which a relatively small
set of variables can account for racial difference in timing of
initiation of sexual activity, first marriage, first birth, and divorce
[in the United States]. The independent variables included in the
model are adolescent living arrangements (single-parent vs.
two-parent), mother's educational level, religion, region of the
country, area of residency (urban, suburban, rural), birth cohort, and
year of the survey. Based on hazard models for the rate of occurrence
of each event, we estimate how Blacks would differ if they had mean
values on covariates equal to White observed means. Although the
results differ for the four dependent variables, this particular set of
independent variables does not provide a satisfactory explanation of
the differences between Black and White family formation and
dissolution."
Correspondence: T. B. Heaton, Brigham Young
University, Center for Studies of the Family, Provo, UT 84602.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:30377 Latten, J.
J. Changes in the demographic life course.
[Verandering in de demografische levensloop.] Maandstatistiek van de
Bevolking, Vol. 42, No. 3, Mar 1994. 8-14 pp. Voorburg, Netherlands. In
Dut. with sum. in Eng.
"The decision to live alone after leaving
the parental home, to cohabit, to marry, or to become [a] mother for
the first time, as well as the ages at which these decisions occur,
characterize the individual demographic life-course. Based on the
first results of the 1993 [Netherlands] Family and Fertility Survey it
is shown that the kind of transitions made and the age at which these
occur change....The ages at which transitions in the demographic
life-course are made, are compared for generations born after 1950.
The results point to a continuous change. The only exception is the
tendency to stay at the parents home, which changed direction towards a
longer stay for those born since the mid 1960s."
Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:30378 Lavertu,
Jacques. Children and their family environment in the
census of 1990. [Les enfants et leur environnment familial au
recensement de 1990.] Population, Vol. 48, No. 6, Nov-Dec 1993.
1,985-2,010 pp. Paris, France. In Fre.
"In the census of 1990, 17.8
million children [in France] under 30 years old were living with their
parent(s). They amount to 31 per cent of the population, and live on
average with 1.47 siblings....Although those in intermediate and white
collar occupations are slightly underrepresented, compared with the
active adult male population, sons and daughters of blue-collar workers
are overrepresented. Moreover, the older the child, the more likely he
is to come from a family in which the head of the household has
received little or no education....For children of the same age, the
number of siblings in the family affects the mother's level of labour
force participation....Between the censuses of 1982 and 1990, the age
at which children leave the parental home and/or enter working life has
increased markedly."
Correspondence: J. Lavertu, Institut
National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques, 18 boulevard
Adolphe Pinard, 75675 Paris Cedex 14, France. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:30379 Lee, Gary
R.; Coward, Raymond T.; Netzer, Julie K. Residential
differences in filial responsibility expectations among older
persons. Rural Sociology, Vol. 59, No. 1, Spring 1994. 100-9 pp.
Bozeman, Montana. In Eng.
"This study examines variation in filial
responsibility expectations--the extent to which adult children are
expected to assist and care for their aging parents--among a sample of
440 older persons. The analysis focuses on the relationship of filial
responsibility expectations to residential location and tests the
hypothesis that older rural residents have higher expectations for
assistance from their children than do older urbanites....The findings
show that four variables--marital status, health, race, and residence
during childhood--affect filial responsibility expectations among older
persons....Specifically, those who grew up on farms have higher
expectations than those raised in urban environments. Current
residence, on the other hand, has little to do with expectations."
Data concern a sample of persons aged 65 and older living in northern
Florida.
Correspondence: G. R. Lee, University of Florida,
Center on Rural Health and Aging, Gainesville, FL 32611-2036.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:30380 Lino,
Mark. Income and spending patterns of single-mother
families. Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 117, No. 5, May 1994. 29-37
pp. Washington, D.C. In Eng.
This study examines the economic
status of single-mother families by the mothers' marital status,
focusing on income and expenditures. Different routes to single
parenthood have varying economic implications for families. Families
maintained by divorced/separated, never-married, and widowed women also
are compared with married-couple families to determine the extent of
differences by family type. Data are from the interview component of
the 1989-91 [U.S.] Consumer Expenditure Survey....[The author finds
that] single-mother families are a growing proportion of all families
with children. Compared with married-couples families, the economic
status of such families is much lower. Among single-mother families,
those maintained by never-married mothers are a growing percentage and
are most likely to be economically
disadvantaged."
Correspondence: M. Lino, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Family Economics Research Group, Washington, D.C.
Location: Princeton University Library (Docs).
60:30381 Lloyd,
Cynthia B. Investing in the next generation: the
implications of high fertility at the level of the family.
Population Council Research Division Working Paper, No. 63, 1994. 59
pp. Population Council, Research Division: New York, New York. In Eng.
"This paper...provides an up-to-date review of the evidence,
primarily from developing countries, on families' experiences with
fertility and family size and their implications for investments in
young people. It looks at the experience of children collectively as
well as individually, and explores the ways in which boys' and girls'
experiences differ....It also explores the links among fertility, the
extent to which children are wanted, and equity among
siblings."
Correspondence: Population Council, Research
Division, One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY 10017.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:30382 McDaniel,
Antonio. Historical racial differences in living
arrangements of children. Journal of Family History, Vol. 19, No.
1, 1994. 57-77 pp. Greenwich, Connecticut/London, England. In Eng.
Racial differences in U.S. family structure are explored. The
author suggests that "the African American family is not simply a
product of existing social conditions but a reflection of a history and
a culture that has been conducive to the survival of the African
American population. The effect of social and economic exploitation
and exclusion of the African population in America during slavery and
its aftermath is summarized by a historical approach, which is
sensitive to culture. The contemporary household structures of the
European and African American populations differ in a similar although
more extreme manner than in the past."
Correspondence: A.
McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Sociology,
Philadelphia, PA 19104. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
60:30383 Nath, Dilip
C.; Talukdar, Pijush K. Household structure and family
pattern of a traditional society. Janasamkhya, Vol. 9, No. 1-2,
Jun 1991. 61-74 pp. Kariavattom, India. In Eng.
"In this paper,
[the] main aim is to examine the household structure and family units
of a scheduled caste population--a traditional society of India--with
the help of survey data. Data [are] from a socio-demographic survey
[of a] scheduled caste population residing in the rural areas of
Assam." Information is provided on types of households and family
units; residence pattern and household structure; and household
size.
Correspondence: D. C. Nath, Gauhati University,
Department of Statistics, Gauhati 781 014, Assam, India.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:30384 Nave-Herz,
Rosemarie; Kruger, Dorothea. One-parent families: an
empirical study of the life situation and life planning of single
mothers and fathers. [Ein-Eltern-Familien. Eine empirische Studie
zur Lebenssituation und Lebensplanung alleinerziehender Mutter und
Vater.] Materialien zur Frauenforschung, Vol. 15, ISBN 3-89370-160-5.
1992. 130 pp. Kleine Verlag: Bielefeld, Germany. In Ger.
A
qualitative and quantitative study of one-parent families in Germany is
presented. Topics examined include the increase in the number of such
families, particularly those headed by women; attitudes toward
one-parent families; reasons for choosing this type of lifestyle;
future wishes and plans; and social
integration.
Correspondence: Kleine Verlag, Postfach
101668, 4800 Bielefeld 1, Germany. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
60:30385
Prokophieva, Lidia. Large families in
low-fertility regions: a social portrait. In: Demographic trends
and patterns in the Soviet Union before 1991, edited by Wolfgang Lutz,
Sergei Scherbov, and Andrei Volkov. 1994. 219-30 pp. Routledge: New
York, New York/London, England; International Institute for Applied
Systems Analysis [IIASA]: Laxenburg, Austria. In Eng.
"This chapter
studies and describes the phenomenon of large families, especially in
the regions where nuclear families with one or two children
prevail....We have studied the motivation for a large family, the
socioeconomic status of the parents, and the degree of their
responsibility for the well-being and upbringing of their children. In
addition, the essential differences in the way of life have been
considered. We use data from the socioeconomic survey carried out in
Taganrog, a medium-sized city in Russia, in early
1990."
Correspondence: L. Prokophieva, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Institute for Socioeconomic Studies of Population, Leninsky
Pr. 14, 117901 Moscow, Russia. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
60:30386 Ravanera,
Zenaida R.; Rajulton, Fernando; Burch, Thomas K. Tracing
the life courses of Canadians. Canadian Studies in Population,
Vol. 21, No. 1, 1994. 21-34 pp. Edmonton, Canada. In Eng. with sum. in
Fre.
"This paper examines the life courses of Canadians through an
event history analysis of data from the 1990 General Social Survey on
Family and Friends. The sequences and the timing of transitions into
various life course stages, and the durations of stay in those stages
are analyzed through multiple-decrement life tables. Changes in the
life courses over 10-year birth cohorts from 1910 to 1970 and
differentials by gender are highlighted in the paper. The analysis
reveals that what is traditionally thought of as a 'typical' life
course is experienced only by one-fourth to one-third of a cohort.
With the increasing diversity of life course stages among younger
cohorts, it would no longer be adequate to consider only the 'typical'
life stages in future analyses."
This is a revised version of a
paper originally presented at the 1993 Annual Meeting of the Population
Association of America.
Correspondence: Z. R. Ravanera,
University of Western Ontario, Department of Sociology, Population
Studies Centre, London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Canada. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:30387 Rendall,
Michael S. The growth of female family headship in the
United States, 1968-88. Pub. Order No. DA9407014. 1993. 144 pp.
University Microfilms International: Ann Arbor, Michigan. In Eng.
"The present study investigates the growth of female family
headship--women raising children under 18 without a coresident male
partner--in the United States between 1968 and 1988....The overall
picture of headship change formed from these analyses is one of
increasingly younger family heads over time, mostly induced by
nonmarital childbearing into the 1980s, with greater fluidity of
mother-child coresidence arrangements, more secondary-family headship,
and greater incidence of multiple periods of family headship per
woman." The study was prepared as a doctoral dissertation at Brown
University.
Correspondence: University Microfilms
International, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, A: Humanities
and Social Sciences 54(10).
60:30388 Settles,
Barbara H.; Hanks, Daniel E.; Sussman, Marvin B. Families
on the move: migration, immigration, emigration, and mobility.
Marriage and Family Review, Vol. 19, No. 1-4, 1993. 400 pp. Haworth
Press: Binghamton, New York. In Eng.
This volume of the journal
Marriage and Family Review, published in two separate parts, presents
the proceedings of the Groves Conference on Marriage and the Family.
The focus is on the role that migration plays in modern family life.
Both internal and international migration are considered. The
geographical scope is worldwide, with specific attention paid to the
United States.
Correspondence: Haworth Press, 10 Alice
Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
60:30389
Stankuniene, Vlada; Kanopiene, Vida. Public
opinion on family policies in Lithuania. In: Demographic trends
and patterns in the Soviet Union before 1991, edited by Wolfgang Lutz,
Sergei Scherbov, and Andrei Volkov. 1994. 249-61 pp. Routledge: New
York, New York/London, England; International Institute for Applied
Systems Analysis [IIASA]: Laxenburg, Austria. In Eng.
"The article
is based on two surveys carried out [in Lithuania in 1988 and
1990]....The public opinion on the effect of existing FP [family
policy] and family preferences has been investigated along with other
problems by these surveys....The...surveys indicate [that]...most
families prefer to support themselves; men should be allowed to earn as
much as possible to support their families. The preferable way of
caring for preschool children is at home by a nonworking
parent,...[and] women with preschool children prefer to give up their
job or to work under special conditions."
Correspondence:
V. Stankuniene, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics,
Department of Demography, Gedimino pr. 3, 2600 Vilnius, Lithuania.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:30390 Trent,
Katherine. Family context and adolescents' expectations
about marriage, fertility, and nonmarital childbearing. Social
Science Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 2, Jun 1994. 319-39 pp. Austin, Texas.
In Eng.
"Data from the [U.S.] National Longitudinal Surveys of
Labor Market Experience of Youth are used to examine adolescents'
expectations about the occurrence, timing, and sequence of marriage and
childbearing. Blacks are the most likely group to expect adolescent or
nonmarital childbearing, and the least likely to expect early marriage.
Family structure effects are few, but suggest some 'nontraditional'
arrangements increase expectations for early family formation. In
general, poverty increases and higher maternal education decreases
expectations for teenage childbearing."
Correspondence: K.
Trent, State University of New York, Department of Sociology, 1400
Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222. Location: Princeton
University Library (PR).
60:30391 Valetas,
Marie-France. The future of woman's own name and the
transformation of family structures. Population. English
Selection, Vol. 5, 1993. 223-47 pp. Paris, France. In Eng.
The
author explores "the changes in attitude [in France] which may have
accompanied the recent anti-marriage trend mirrored by the spread of
unmarried cohabitation and divorce. She has chosen to investigate
opinions in France concerning a secularly one-sided aspect of the
marriage system: almost all women take their husband's name when they
marry and children are automatically given only their father's
name....We...look for signs of change: first, cohortwise, by examining
age-specific differences in attitude; second, change related to social
groups and the diffusion of new opinions....Finally, we compare these
results with data from preceding surveys and suggest what the prospects
may be for woman's name."
Correspondence: M.-F. Valetas,
Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques, 27 rue du Commandeur, 75675
Paris Cedex 14, France. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
60:30392 Volkov,
Andrei. Family and household changes in the USSR: a
demographic approach. In: Demographic trends and patterns in the
Soviet Union before 1991, edited by Wolfgang Lutz, Sergei Scherbov, and
Andrei Volkov. 1994. 149-66 pp. Routledge: New York, New York/London,
England; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis [IIASA]:
Laxenburg, Austria. In Eng.
Family and household formation patterns
in the former Soviet Union are outlined using data from two surveys on
family formation conducted in 1984 and 1989. Consideration is given to
nuptiality, marriage dissolution, fertility, living arrangements,
family size norms, and family
relationships.
Correspondence: A. Volkov, State Committee
of the Russian Federation on Statistics, Institute of Statistics and
Economic Research, Moscow, Russia. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
