Ebanks G E, Loaiza E
J Biosoc Sci. 1989 Jan;21(1):71-82. doi: 10.1017/s0021932000017739.
Women in marital unions had more live births than those in consensual unions. The relationship between cumulative fertility and the number of fertile sexual unions is positive for the early childbearing years and negative for the later ones. There is no consistent pattern of relationship between fertility and the sociocultural independent variables for different subgroups according to nuptiality pattern. The relationship between fertility and nuptiality in the Dominican Republic is consistent with that for the Caribbean region.
婚姻关系中的女性比自愿结合关系中的女性生育的活产婴儿更多。在生育早期，累积生育率与可生育的性结合数量之间呈正相关，而在生育后期则呈负相关。根据婚姻模式划分的不同亚组中，生育率与社会文化自变量之间不存在一致的关系模式。多米尼加共和国生育率与婚姻状况之间的关系与加勒比地区一致。
