A study was conducted to obtain information concerning costs and rewards of having children as perceived by the college students in India. The study sample consisted of 160 undergraduate students from the University of Udaipur, India. The sample had 40 students from each of the following four groups: Hindu males, Hindu females, Muslim males, and Muslim females. A Likert-type questionnaire covering various aspects of costs and rewards of having children was administered to the students. / The study shows that there are significant sex and religion differences among college students in India in their perceived costs and rewards of having children. In general, the female college students, Hindu and Muslim, valued children more, as compared to male students in terms of several rewards of having children such as continuity of family name, tradition, and security in old age. Female students generally agreed with a statement such as "A girl becomes a woman only after she is a mother." Improvement in social status on being a mother was also found to be an important reward for female students. / Male students in general and Muslim students in particular expressed significantly higher peer pressure to have children. This study also revealed that, Muslim students did not advocate birth control measures strongly as compared to Hindu students. / Hindu and Muslim college students in India overwhelmingly indicated that children were expensive to raise and they also felt that children do limit parent's activities. However, female students placed the financial cost of children low to moderate and did not think that children caused any marital disharmony. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-10, Section: A, page: 4334. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74654 |
| Contributors | PANCHOLY, KUSUM., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 102 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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