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4035722

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1985-10-3
pubmed:abstractText
Singapore has in recent years undergone a tremendous fertility decline that has affected couples at all socioeconomic levels. Using representative biographical sketches, this article presents the results of a panel study on family planning intentions and behavior among 45 young Chinese Singaporean couples. The couples, ranked as average or affluent working-class, or middle-class, were first interviewed in 1974-76 and were followed up in 1981. The study compares early childbearing intentions with actual childbearing behavior, examining the motivation for childbearing by socioeconomic group and highlighting the differences found. The follow-up interviews reveal that, on average, all couples in the sample bore 0.4 fewer children than originally intended. The motivation for changed childbearing intentions, however, differed according to socioeconomic status and the perceived role that children play in the family economy.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0039-3665
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
16
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
199-210
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:otherAbstract
PIP: Singapore has in recent years undergone a tremendous fertility decline that has affected couples at all socioeconomic levels. The changing conditions in which family size decisions are made were crucial in this decline; but these conditions varied by socioeconomic group. The government's policies raised the costs of bearing children, but here too, the ultimate effect of the policies differed by social class. Using representative biographical sketches, this article presents the results of a panel study on family planning intentions and behavior among 54 Chinese Singaporean couples. The study compares early childbearing intentions with actual childbearing behavior, examining the motivation for childbearing by socioeconomic group and highlighting the differences found. In the mid-1970s, intended family size was larger for the average working-class Chinese couples in the sample than for the affluent couples. In response to major socioeconomic changes brought on by Singapore's rapid development, however, the average family size of both socioeconomic groups fell below original intentions. Average working class parents in 1981 tended to refer to the direct or short-term costs of having children as reasons for actual family size. In contrast, affluent working and middle class parents were from the outset more likely to refer to the indirect or long-term costs of raising children, such as higher education, which would require some savings. Couples interviewed also mentioned the time constraints that would be put on them if they had all the children they once intended. Here again, the meaning of time constraints differs by socioeconomic status. Average working-class parents referred mainly to the possibility that working wives might have to quit their jobs to care for a newborn. Women who did not work full-time spoke of having to curtail their home-based work if they had another child. In contrast, affluent couples spoke of the education that a child needs, as well as the moral and academic tutoring provided at home by the mother. Another child would take time away from those already born, reducing the quality of children affluent parents desired. All couples in both groups were influenced to some extent by their kin to bear more children or delay use of contraception. However, only average working-class parents were coerced by their kin into having an additional child. All in all, though, pressure from relatives to bear an additional child had abated by 1981 in both groups. The couples interviewed had also incorporated into their family planning behavior the sentiment propounded by state social policy. Also, by 1981, all the couples had accepted the government's social disincentive policies against higher order births.
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Family size intentions and socioeconomic status in Singapore, 1974-1981.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't