General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE: KINSHIP, MARRIAGE, AND FERTILITY -- Marriage and Kinship in Relation to Human Fertility -- Age Differential, Marital Instability, and Venereal Disease: Factors Affecting Fertility among the Northwest Barma -- Cultural Factors Inhibiting Population Growth among the Kafa of Southwestern Ethiopia -- Some Aspects of Socioeconomic Change and Fertility Control among the Emerging Elite of the Pathans -- The Economic Importance of Children in a Javanese Village -- Factors Underlying Endogamous Group Size -- PART TWO: POPULATION POLICY AND FAMILY PLANNING -- Birth Planning: Between Neglect and Coercion -- Legislation Influencing Fertility in Czechoslovakia -- The Marginal Family in Chile: Social Change and Woman's Contraceptive Behavior -- Kinship, Contraception, and Family Planning in the Iranian City of Isfahan -- Mass Acceptance of Vasectomy: The Role of Social Interaction and Incentives in Social Change -- PART THREE: MIGRATION -- Families to the City: A Study of Changing Values, Fertility, and Socioeconomic Status among Urban In-migrants -- Residential Patterns and Population Movement into the Farmlands of Yorubaland -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.