Race Differences in Sexual Activity Among Adolescent Women: The Role of Neighborhood Characteristics

Brewster, Karin L.

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“…Lower family income (Upchurch et al, 1999) and lower parental educational attainment (Brewster, 1994;Sieving, McNeely, & Blum, 2000) are associated with a greater likelihood of teenage intercourse. Th ese associations may refl ect diff erences in perceived life opportunities and available social roles.…”

Section: Family Infl Uencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Living in poor neighborhoods is associated with greater frequency of intercourse among males (Ku, Sonenstein, & Pleck, 1993b) and with higher rates of adolescent pregnancy (Hogan & Kitagawa, 1985). Community variables, such the percentage of women working full time, are negatively associated with rates of premarital intercourse for both black and white women (Billy, Brewster, & Grady, 1994) and help account for racial disparities in timing of fi rst intercourse (Brewster, 1994). Th e proportion of middle-class neighbors is negatively associated with adolescent childbearing, whereas the prevalence of female-headed families is a positive predictor.…”

Section: Neighborhood Infl Uencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Adolescent Sexuality: Behavior and Meaning

Crockett¹,

Raffaelli

Moilanen

2006

Blackwell Handbook of Adolescence

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Section: Family Infl Uencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Neighborhood Infl Uencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adolescent Sexuality: Behavior and Meaning

Crockett¹,

Raffaelli

Moilanen

2006

Blackwell Handbook of Adolescence

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“…Past research shows that race has a significant effect on the onset and frequency of sexual activities and the number of sexual partners, where Africans have an earlier onset and greater frequency of sexual activities and a larger number of sexual partners than Europeans and Asians (Brewster 1994;Rowe and Rodgers 1994;Lynn 2000). I therefore control for the race of the respondent (1 if black; 0 if otherwise).…”

Section: Racementioning

confidence: 99%

Can Evolutionary Psychology Explain Reproductive Behavior in the Contemporary United States?

Kanazawa

2003

The Sociological Quarterly

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Can evolutionary psychology explain human behavior in postindustrial societies? Critics point out that, contrary to its prediction, wealthy men in contemporary societies do not have more children than poor men. I replicate Pérusse's (1993) finding with a large, representative sample and demonstrate that, while they do not have more children, wealthy men nonetheless have more sex partners and copulate more frequently than poor men. They would therefore have achieved greater reproductive success in the ancestral environment without effective means of contraception.Throughout human history, wealthy and powerful men of high status have had a greater number of mates and produced more children than poor and powerless men of low status (Betzig 1986). In ancient civilizations, kings, emperors, and sultans maintained large harems of hundreds and thousands of virgins, and local chiefs and noblemen kept several wives or concubines, while at the same time countless poor men in the countryside died mateless and childless (Betzig 1993). And these wealthy and powerful men of high status invariably left a large number of descendants. Moulay Ismail the Bloodthirsty, Emperor of Morocco from the late sixteenth to early seventeenth century, for instance, produced at least 1,042 offspring (Young 1994). (The exact number is not known because they stopped counting daughters after a while and eventually stopped counting sons after 700.) An emerging field of evolutionary psychology (Buss 1999) can explain why wealthy men have more mates and children than poor men, in terms of women's evolved desire to mate with such men because of their ability to make greater investment into the offspring.In sharp contrast, a strong positive correlation between wealth and reproduction does not exist in contemporary society. Marriage and successful reproduction are no longer privileges of the wealthy and powerful, and men's reproductive success is not

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“…The influence of community context on onset of sexual intercourse and prevalence of multiple partnerships is well understood in the developed world (Brewster, 1994a;1994b;Klitsch, 1994). Contributions of community factors such as socioeconomic status, female unemployment, youth idleness, social hazards (drug abuse, gangs, etc.…”

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Urban–rural differences in the socioeconomic deprivation–Sexual behavior link in Kenya

Dodoo

Zulu

Ezeh

2007

Social Science & Medicine

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We compare the impact of socioeconomic deprivation on risky sexual outcomes in rural and urban Kenya. Quantitative data are drawn from the Demographic & Health Surveys (DHS) and qualitative data from the Sexual Networking and Associated Reproductive and Social Health Concerns study. Using two separate indicators of deprivation we show that, although poverty is significantly associated with the examined sexual outcomes in all settings, the urban poor are significantly more likely than their rural counterparts to have an early sexual debut and a greater incidence of multiple sexual partnerships. The disadvantage of the urban poor is accentuated for married women; those in Nairobi's slums are at least three times as likely to have multiple sexual partners as their rural counterparts. The implications of these findings are discussed.

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Race Differences in Sexual Activity Among Adolescent Women: The Role of Neighborhood Characteristics

Cited by 257 publications

References 37 publications

Adolescent Sexuality: Behavior and Meaning

Adolescent Sexuality: Behavior and Meaning

Can Evolutionary Psychology Explain Reproductive Behavior in the Contemporary United States?

Urban–rural differences in the socioeconomic deprivation–Sexual behavior link in Kenya

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