Fertility and Deprivation: A Study of Differential Fertility Amongst Working-Class Families in Aberdeen

by Janet Askham

Book Overview

Originally published in 1975, this was the first empirical study to investigate the nature of the links between family size and the social and economic condition of those in lower social classes. The largest families are often found among those who seem to be least able to afford many children. Why is this so? By comparing a sample of Aberdeen couples in an unskilled manual occupational group who had large families with those in the same and other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521134374
• ISBN13: 9780521134378
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"