Intensive Parenting: Fertility and Breastfeeding Duration in the United States.

Using 30 years of longitudinal data from a nationally representative cohort of women, we study the association between breastfeeding duration and completed fertility, fertility expectations, and birth spacing. We find that women who breastfeed their first child for five months or longer are a distin...

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Published in:	Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 55; no. 5; pp. 1681 - 1705
Main Authors:	Maralani, Vida, Stabler, Samuel
Format:	journal article
Published:	Springer Nature Oct2018
Subjects:	United States Parenting Breastfeeding Birth intervals Human fertility Socioeconomic factors Families Mothers Longitudinal method Time
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost