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Marriage, Family, and Fertility

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Handbook of Marriage and the Family

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The study of human fertility is centrally concerned with conception and childbearing, and with variables related to these events. Biological conditions that affect fecundity (the ability to bear children) are obviously important in understanding fertility, and technology plays a part through the invention and dissemination of devices and procedures that can regulate conception or birth. However, because the vast majority of people are biologically able to reproduce, and technology affects fertility only if it is used, the emphasis of this chapter is on social-cultural variables related to fertility. Social-cultural elements most strongly affect when and with whom sexual intercourse occurs and whether measures are taken to prevent conception or birth. Marriage and the family are major social-cultural elements, and especially in advanced societies, the social-cultural influences on human fertility are of overriding importance (Andorka, 1978).

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