The Impact of Children on Sex Related Differences in Church Attendance
This paper considers the arguments that the childrearing role of women helps account for their greater commitment to institutional religion in America. Using NORC data from 1972–80 it shows that while becoming a parent, number of children in the family and stage in the childrearing affect frequency...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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1982
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Sociological analysis
Jahr: 1982, Band: 43, Heft: 2, Seiten: 145-154 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This paper considers the arguments that the childrearing role of women helps account for their greater commitment to institutional religion in America. Using NORC data from 1972–80 it shows that while becoming a parent, number of children in the family and stage in the childrearing affect frequency of church attendance these family variables have an equal impact on both men and women. Thus the childrearing role of women does not help explain why more women than men attend church regularly. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3710794 |