The Relationship Among the Material Welfare, Maternity, and Marital Status of Women in the State of Georgia

Autor:	M. Sami Walid, Nadezhda Zaytseva
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Public health Birth rate State (polity) Community health Economic security medicine Marital status Household income Psychology Socioeconomics Law Welfare Demography media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Divorce & Remarriage. 52:550-556
ISSN:	1540-4811 1050-2556
Popis:	Childbearing among unmarried women has been the subject of intense public health debate for decades, reflecting concerns about the impact on family structure and the economic security of born children. This report analyzes 2007 data from the OASIS, the website of the Division of Public Health of the Georgia Department of Community Health. Significant inverse correlations were recorded among the counties' median household income on one side and birth rate (r = –.239, p < .01), percentage of all births from unmarried mothers (r = –.679, p < .001), and percentage of all births from mothers with less than a 12th-grade education (r = –.488, p < .001). We believe that creating a network of maternity education and support programs across the state of Georgia that works under centralized supervision from a maternity committee could help alleviate the negative effect of median household income on nonmarital birth and decrease regional disparities related to nonmarital births.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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