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The Later Years of Childbearing
By (Author) Larry L. Bumpass
By (author) Charles F. Westoff
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Sociology: family and relationships
Infertility and fertilization
Public health and preventive medicine
304.6320973
Hardback
186
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
425g
Why do American couples differ in the number of children they have To answer this question the first major longitudinal study in American fertility was begun in 1957 with a series of interviews with parents of two children. Family Growth in Metropolitan America (1961) and The Third Child (1963) reported the results of the first two phases of this