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Family Design: Marital Sexuality, Family Size, and Contraception

Family Design: Marital Sexuality, Family Size, and Contraception

by Lee Rainwater (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

    $66.20
Synopsis

Why do contraceptive practices work for some couples and not for others? How do couples decide the number of children they want? What are the implications of family design in terms of the population explosion? Family Design is a thoroughly documented study undertaken by Social Research, Inc., for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Based on intensive interviews with 409 husbands and wives, it applies the framework of family sociology to a problem that has previously been studied mainly from the demographic point of view.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 348
 Publisher: AldineTransaction
Published: 15 Feb 2007
ISBN 10: 0202309371
ISBN 13: 9780202309378

Media Reviews

The main strength of this book lies in its sociological hypotheses concerning the reasons for differences in fertility rates and in prevalence and effectiveness of family planning by social class, religion, and color... [T]he author has served an important function in pointing up the need for sociological as well as psychological approaches to the study of human fertility.

--Clyde V. Kiser, American Sociological Review


The main strength of this book lies in its sociological hypotheses concerning the reasons for differences in fertility rates and in prevalence and effectiveness of family planning by social class, religion, and color... [T]he author has served an important function in pointing up the need for sociological as well as psychological approaches to the study of human fertility.

--Clyde V. Kiser, American Sociological Review


-The main strength of this book lies in its sociological hypotheses concerning the reasons for differences in fertility rates and in prevalence and effectiveness of family planning by social class, religion, and color... [T]he author has served an important function in pointing up the need for sociological as well as psychological approaches to the study of human fertility.-

--Clyde V. Kiser, American Sociological Review

Author Bio
Lee Rainwater is professor emeritus of sociology at Harvard University and research director of the Luxembourg Income Study. He was one of the original founders of Transaction. He has been associate editor of Journal of Marriage and the Family and on the review board of Sociological Quarterly. He was written various books and in many professional journals.