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  • In modern industrial societies people consider the effects that having children will have on their life styles before deciding to reproduce. This essay examines the decision to bear children in such societies in terms of the religious relationship between individuals and society. The author constructs a model with axes representing absolutism to relativism, and individualism to collectivism, thus forming quadrants representing revisionism, fundamentalism, pragmatism, and conventionalism. The model is then used to explain 3 views of the relationship between religion and fertility in modern societies: 1) low fertility represents a decline in traditional Christian doctrine acceptance; 2) secularization relegates religion to the private sphere, and sexuality's liberation from social control allows individuals to exercise greater control over sexual conduct; and 3) when voluntary childlessness becomes the choice of more than a minority, the society's value system and norms are threatened. 20 years ago Europe saw a peak in familism and religiosity. The European Values Survey of 1200 adults in each of 27 countries provide data on moral and social value attitudes in Europe since 1981. The findings suggest that fundamentalism is positively associated with familism and negatively associated with urban residence, education, low socioeconomic status, and female employment. Conventionalism implies familism and higher income. The Irish Republic proves most fundamentalist, Spain most revisionist, Germany most conventionalist, and France most pragmatic. Low fertility is consistent with familism where expensive life styles for children and parents are highly valued, but the preferred family size will not fall below 2 since sibling and parent-child relationships motivate familist couples to have more than 1 child. The norms of the consumer society clearly change the patterns, but do not lessen the importance of parenthood to most people. (xsd:string)
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  • 1986 (xsd:gyear)
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  • Culture, Economy and Reproduction in Contemporary Europe (xsd:string)
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  • The State of Population Theory: Forward from Malthus (xsd:string)
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  • In The State of Population Theory: Forward from Malthus, edited by Coleman, D A. and Schofield, Roger, 256-277, Blackwell, 1986 (xsd:string)
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