title: The effect of native-language retention and insecurity on Asian Indian fertility in the United States.
abstract: The relationship of social/psychological insecurity and native-language retention to fertility was explored among a nationally representative sample of 3,408 endogamously wed Asian Indian women living in the United States. Native-language retention had a negative impact on Asian Indian women's fertility that cannot be explained by the normative dimension of the minority group status hypothesis (Goldscheider & Uhlenberg, 1969); therefore, alternative explanations for minority fertility differentials are required.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology/Anthropology, California State University, Bakersfield 93311-1099, USA.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kohli
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001213:Asian / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000208:ethnology; D019303:Multilingualism; D011247:Pregnancy; D014481:United States