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:	9781138523401
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/12/2017
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lee Rainwater is professor emeritus of sociology at Harvard University and research director emeritus of the Luxembourg Income Study. He was an editor at Transaction, the associate editor of theJournal of Marriage and the Family, and a member of the review board of Sociological Quarterly. He has written various books and many professional journal articles, including Poor Kids in a Rich Country: America's Children In Comparative Perspective; Income Packaging in the Welfare State: A Comparative Study of Family Income; and Social Policy and Public Policy: Inequality and Justice.

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