title: Voluntary and involuntary childlessness among Catholic and non-Catholic women: are the patterns converging?
abstract: Data from 1976 and 1982 show Catholics less likely than non-Catholics to be voluntarily childless and more likely to be involuntarily childless. Declining differences in fertility and contraception are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Rural Sociology Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Poston
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002410:Catholicism / Q000523:psychology*; D003268:Contraception Behavior / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility; D006801:Humans; D012189:Retrospective Studies