Demographic and Social Aspects of Childlessness: Census Data

Fertility and Childlessness in the United States

“…This could then lead many childless women in cohorts 1971-1900 to be counted as not respondents instead of as childless and hence explain partly the increase in childlessness rates for the following cohorts. This was already pointed out in Grabill and Glick (1959).…”

Development and childlessness in the states and territories of Brazil

“…Most prior studies of childlessness have focused on the United States and Canada (e.g., the census-based analyses of Grabill and Glick, 1959;Poston and Gotard, 1977;Davis, 1982;Veevers, 1972, andWolowyna, 1977, among others). In recent years there have been a few studies dealing with other countries.…”

Fertility and population regulation

“…1 They argue that in fact childlessness is considerably higher among nonwhite populations. In support of their argument, Kunz and Brinkerhoff ignore previous research in this area (Grabill and Glick, 1959) and refer to 1960 American census data concerning white and nonwhite wives, married once with husband present, ages 35-54. Kunz and Brinkerhoff attempt to introduce controls for some of the variables which may affect their data.…”

“…All such "experts" who have considered the phenomenon of childlessness at all have commented upon its higher incidence among nonwhites. See, for example, Grabill and Glick, 1959;Mitra, 1966;Campbell, 1966. (comparing first marriage at 14 to 21 with first marriage at 22 or older) and by husband's education. Taking these controls into account, the data still support the essential message of their article, namely that: "a greater proportion of the nonwhite couples are childless than are the white couples" (Kunz and Brinkerhoff, 1969, p. 719).…”