Abstract
Seventy-four women living on Kuchinoshima in July 1969 were interviewed for their histories of marriage, pregnancy and delivery. They became to have a small size of family year by year like the general trend in Japan, but the number of children wanted and perfor med by the women on Kuchinoshima was constantly larger than that observed on the group of the same age-cohort and similar occupations in Japan. Substantially, the length of marital life within reproductive age was significant for the number of live-births, and the early age of marriage was an auxiliary factor for their high fertility rate.
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