Institutional patterns, attitudes, knowledge and practices pertaining to sexual relations and birth control amongst the Cape Coloureds
Date
1968
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Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University
Abstract
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to determine the institutional patterns,
attitudes, knowledge and practices pertaining to birth control among
a sample of Cape Coloured women who had been exposed to information
on such techniques at maternal clinics and to ascertain the possible
bearing of any of these factors on the fertility of the group.
The study of fertility in any given society involves the analysis of the
family and its institutional characteristics. Reproduction is one of
the primary functions of the family, and it is through this institution
that society maintains itself against the hazards of mortality. Both
fertility and mortality are closely connected with the family structure
and values. It has, however, been found that it is to a large extent
possible to control mortality by factors external to the family.
Fertility on the other hand is much less susceptible -to such control and
is more closely linked to family organisation. For this reason, major
attention will focus on the internal structure of the family as a system
on which all the institutions of the larger society impinge.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Stellenbosch, 1968.
Keywords
Sex customs -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope, Birth control -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope, Colored people (South Africa) -- Social life and customs, Dissertations -- Sociology, UCTD