This thesis utilizes a series of seven logistic regression models to examine thepredictors of the likelihood of adoption among U.S. women based on the NationalSurvey of Family Growth, Cycle 6. The individual characteristics that have been foundmost influential in determining adoption behavior in...

In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of Ireland's late entry to the fertility transition focus on the influence of the Roman Catholic Church...