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Fewer Men, More Babies - Sex, Family, and Fertility in Haiti (Hardcover)
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Fewer Men, More Babies - Sex, Family, and Fertility in Haiti (Hardcover)
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Fewer Men, More Babies re-evaluates the debate over family patterns
in the Caribbean with respect to the critical importance that child
labor plays in peasant household livelihood strategies. Earlier
anthropologists widely accepted and provided empirical evidence
that the contributions made by children to the peasant household
labor pool was a significant determinant of social patterns and
high birth rates. In the 1960s researchers began to dismiss the
economic utility of children. Children were conceptualized as
economic burdens, wanted for emotional, religious, and cultural
reasons. This ideational trend emerged in the context of changes in
Western economies and corresponding shifts in ideology; it
reflected agendas promoted and exported to the developing world by
aid agencies; and it derailed the refinement of academic models
that explain kinship and high fertility. This shortcoming is
especially evident in the Caribbean. Based on original ethnographic
research, this book demonstrates how the process unfolds in
contemporary rural Haiti; how intensive work regimes make children
necessary; how this necessity conditions sexual behavior, gender
relations, and kinship; and why, despite massive contraceptive
campaigns, birth rates in rural Haiti continue to be among the
highest in the world. Schwartz offers a solution to a demographic
paradox that some of the most prominent sociologists and
demographers of the 20th century noted but were never able to
explain: among impoverished small farmers, when more men are absent
due to male wage migration, the women remaining behind give birth
to more, not fewer, babies.
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