Card J J
Demography. 1978 Nov;15(4):459-76.
The malleability of fertility-related attitudes and behavior was studied by analyzing data collected from cross-sectional groups of Filipino migrants who had lived in the United States for varying lengths of time, in conjunction with data from a comparison group of Caucasians from the Filipinos' neighborhoods. With increasing number of years lived in the United States, Filipino migrants' fertility-related knowledge, attitudes, and desires became increasingly similar to those of the Caucasian group, but their contraceptive behavior did not. While approximately equal numbers of Filipinos and Caucasians were contracepting, Filipino couples regardless of duration of stay in the United States were using less effective methods with less regularity. Despite these contraceptive behavior patterns, Filipino migrants perceived that they would have 0.32 fewer children in the United States than they would have had had they remained in the Philippines. By far the most predominant reason given by Filipino respondents for changing fertility patterns in the United States was the difficulty of obtaining child care in the new environment.
通过分析从在美国居住不同时长的菲律宾移民横断面群体收集的数据，以及来自菲律宾人社区的白人对照组的数据，研究了与生育相关的态度和行为的可塑性。随着在美国居住年限的增加，菲律宾移民与生育相关的知识、态度和愿望越来越接近白人组，但他们的避孕行为并非如此。虽然菲律宾人和白人采取避孕措施的人数大致相等，但无论在美国停留时间长短，菲律宾夫妇使用的避孕方法效果较差且使用频率较低。尽管存在这些避孕行为模式，但菲律宾移民认为，与留在菲律宾相比，他们在美国生育的子女数量会少0.32个。菲律宾受访者给出的在美国改变生育模式的最主要原因是在新环境中难以获得儿童保育服务。
