Family Design: Marital Sexuality, Family Size, and Contraception

by Lee Rainwater

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351520447
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/12/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	348
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Lee Rainwater

Table of Contents

1: Introduction; 2: Social class and conjugal role-relationships; 3: Sexual and marital relations; 4: Family size preferences; 5: Rationales for family size; 6: Motivations for large and small families; 7: Family limitation and contraceptive methods; 8: Effective and ineffective contraceptive practices; 9: Medical assistance for family limitation; 10: Conclusions