Item Detail
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10560
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English
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The Fertility Effects of Marriage Patterns in a Frontier American Population
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Historical Methods
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Fall 1987
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20
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161-71
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The marital and fertility experience of women born between 1800 and 1899 who participated in the settlement and development of Utah and the Mormon culture region. The study found that although polygamy reached relatively high levels of practice (29% among the 1830s birth cohort), overall it had a modest and short-term demographic effect. The once-married couple was determined to be the dominant pattern of marriage. The study was based on a data population of over 86,000 ever-married women in the Mormon Historical Demography Project database. The study also peripherally examined divorce, remarriage, and widows. The study also determined that fertility studies could be conducted without regard to the presence of alternative marital arrangements in the database.