V.vdnthy, November SO,
Survey shoTs postponin
parenthood is popular
Though parenthood b etO seen o a
Meaty valued expect of life for both
males and females, the young wemcn
cf today would rcther haw children
after the Erst veers cf raarxieg ac
cording to a survey en parenting pub
lished ly Deenza Lversc-2 and Patricia
Knaub, areodats prcfirsera of human
development at U2JL
Eve re oil s!d v here r.i mr.rrir3 end
motherhood used to be the only
aveasa far VjccceV for women in the
peet, there are row more opporturd
ths far women to demonstrate tlieir
ty pure 3 a career cr
successfully developing employment-
Of 214 undergraduate women sur
veyed f.t Ua"L to 1379, nine of 10
women said they were opposed to hav
ing children early to a marrieA Leoa
than one to 20 eeid they thought that
nailed couples with a mature bve
are ceer to hnre children as soon 0
pceell-b, acccrdlzg to the survey. ,
Eecre :-2s lid parenthood is still con
sidered important to women's sense cf
fulfLLler.nt but "eelMuMUlment can
also I e attained frcn a wider arena of
roles" and affects the timing in which
thini are dens in a person's life. Only
0 percent cf the women surveyed said
they think married women lack self
fdllment until they have a child.
Eversoll eaid wemen today have to
make a choice between marriage, hav
ing children, cr preparing for a career,
and whether to establish themselves in
their prefceoien before they have child
ren. With males having to make the
kind of choices, young couples
todey have "timing decisions to make
that couples did not have in the past.
She said most couples eventually de
cide to have children, but sometimes
delay the start cf parenthood.
; Eversoll said because women are
much mere aware of the aspects and
responsibilities of parenting, more
than half surveyed ssid they were not
prepared to take on the parental role,
the gild with the larger families cf the
past, a daughter growing up was able
to be around babies and help with the
parenting. Now, she said, smaller fami
lies have children two to three jeers .
apart and this day-to-day experience
bleat..
Economies is the ntajor reason why
40 percent said the ideal family else
was two children and another 43 per
- cent erid three or more, Evereell eald.
. Courier todey lock ahead at hev; they
want to livj and emce they want a h!h
standard of living for their children,
they only have as many children o -they
can afTe-rd, the said. . . -, t .
Forty pe rcent of these surveyed said
they , think men are "generally .tied
closer to the marriage, when children
axe in the home but 45 percent db-.
agreed and 15 percent were unde
cided. The study also indicated 'that
both men and women think the other
wants to have children early in mar- .
riage, but the study does not support'''
this because of role changes men and
women have gone through in the past
10 years, Eversoll said. When men and
women had specifically defined roles,
it was eaey to form expectations of
what each aspired to be, with today's
more individualistic expectations, she .
said, one sex cannot be sure of what
the other plans to do. Both men and
women expect to delay having child
ren but perceive the other not wanting
to wait This stereotypical thinking
usually occurs from a lack of discus
sion, Eversoll said.
Eversoll also began a study in 1075
dealing with the role of the father. She
surveyed 221 males when they were
juniors and seniors at UNL to compare
them with their own parents to study
the generational difference. She will
conduct a follow-up survey next year
-' to -reassess the. 'males' views of
fatherhood.' ' " . '1 ' - :"
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