How do attitudes shape childbearing in the United States?

The New Population Problem: Why Families in Developed Countries Are Shrinking and What It Means

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 59-91

  Barber, Jennifer S ^a   Axinn, William G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410612854     Document Type: Chapter

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