Family Planning of Mormon Women in Three-Generation Families
Year: 1972
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This intergenerational study compared the family planning and related attitudes of females who were daughter-mother-grandmother relatives. Questionnaire responses of eighty-one subjects in twenty-seven three-generation families were analyzed regarding birth control, abortion, and population crisis attitudes. Other variables studied included Mormon orthodoxy, education, and place of residence. Except for abortion, the generations had significantly different attitudes. The oldest generation's attitudes, which were the most conservative, differed significantly when contrasted with the more similar attitudes of the middle and younger generations. Mormon orthodoxy was the most dramatically significant factor in attitude differences. Education and residence were not significant sources of attitude variance; however, there was an education and orthodoxy interaction, with low orthodoxy-high education respondents having abortion attitudes which were significantly more liberal than other respondents.
DOI: 10.26076/7345-91fd
Author: Miller, Brent C.
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W385676263