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Motivations for Childbearing Among Malaysians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Poo-Kong Kee
Poo-Kong Kee
Affiliation:
East–West Population Institute, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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Summary

Economic reasons for wanting children predominate among 541 Malaysian adults and 2014 children, followed by happiness, love, and companionship, the latter group especially in several subgroups of young Malaysians identified as demographic innovators. Five empirically constructed value and cost of children indices with known reliability were used to predict variation in the achieved family size of parents as well as the desired family sizes of parents and children. Completeness of family appeared to be the best predictor of achieved family size, whereas intrinsic value of a large family was generally a good predictor of family size preferences.

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Research Article
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , April 1982 , pp. 157 - 166
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Copyright © 1982, Cambridge University Press

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