The U.S. fertility decline, 1961-1975: the contribution of changes in marital status and marital fertility
Gibson, C.
Family Planning Perspectives 8(5): 249-252
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0014-7354 PMID: 976468 DOI: 10.2307/2134321Document Number: 374575
Changes in marital fertility have accounted for 83 percent of the decline in total fertility since 1971; changes in marital status accounted for 19 percent, and changes in nonmarital fertility had only a negligible effect. Declines in the level of marital fertility account for a substantial part of the overall decrease; postponement of childbearing did not occur in any significant degree until the 1970s.