Graduate Research Papers
Availability
Open Access Graduate Research Paper
Abstract
The number of couples who have voluntarily chosen not to have children has doubled in the last few decades, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, Census Bureau, (Kantrowitz, 1985). In 1960 the number of married women between the ages of twenty-five and twenty-nine who were childless totalled [sic] thirteen percent, which averaged one out of ten women (Kantrowitz, 1985). In 1985 the number of married women in the same age group who chose not to have children was twenty-nine percent, which averaged one out of every four women (Kantrowitz, 1985). The only option for married women, in the past, was motherhood, however this has changed. Consequently, there was a total of nearly 3.3 million women between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-four who had been married and who had never had a child (Kantrowitz, 1985).
Year of Submission
1989
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Department of Educational Administration and Counseling
First Advisor
Ann Vernon
Date Original
1989
Object Description
1 PDF file (25 leaves)
Copyright
©1989 Mary Fraune-Winter
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Fraune-Winter, Mary, "The right to be childfree" (1989). Graduate Research Papers. 2351.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/grp/2351
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