Book
Family structure in Jamaica: the social context of reproduction
Free Press of Glencoe • New York • Published In 1961 • Pages:
By: Blake, Judith.
Abstract
This work is a study of reproductive motivations and family structure among the lower classes. It aims to highlight the attitudes, institutions, and conditions inherent within Jamaican society that could help to constrain the birth rate, which is considered an obstacle to economic development. Trained personnel interviewed 99 rural and urban women, and 53 of their partners. Although the author does not give definite recommendations as to how to limit population growth, this study is valuable because it is the first to systematically investigate reproductive motivation and birth control attitudes in Jamaica. The findings challenged the established views of other social scientists of the time, as well as many popular beliefs.
- Subjects
- Drives and emotions
- Marriage
- Nuclear family
- Premarital sex relations
- Sexual intercourse
- Conception
- culture
- Jamaicans
- Region
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub Region
- Caribbean
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Sociologist-4,5
- Analyst
- Heather Fellows ; 1976
- Field Date
- 1953-1954
- Coverage Date
- 1916-1956
- Coverage Place
- Jamaica
- Notes
- By Judith Blake in collaboration with J. Mayone Stycos and Kingsley Davis
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-257)
- LCCN
- 60010893
- LCSH
- Family--Jamaica
- Sex customs--Jamaica
- Birth control--Jamaica
- Fertility, Human