Adamchak's ideal family size and family background: A research note

Abstract

This study was an attempt to further investigate Adamchak's (1977) findings that women whose mothers had been employed around the time the respondent was sixteen had a higher ideal family size than those women whose mothers had not worked. During the research, it was discovered that the Adamchak results were not replicable. However, it was also noted that different ways of handling the response category of “As many as you want” (children) produced markedly different results.