Why Contemporary American Jews Want Small Families

Download or read book Why Contemporary American Jews Want Small Families written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapter attempts to account for differences in desire fertility in desire family size by religion. It examines the routes to group, mean, desire family size. We find that Jews and Protestants resemble one another when comparing mean fertility levels. Jews and Catholics display a direct relationship between religiosity and fertility behavior whereas the Protestants fail to manifest such a relationship. Thus, low Jewish fertility arises from their high level of secularism.