The objective of this paper was to investigate, within a path analytic framework, the form and degree of the relationship between young women's marital plans and their educational expectations. The data for analysis were obtained from a 3 wave, 6 year panel of non-metropolitan southern youths in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina. The first sample of high school sophomores was originally collected in 1966 and 1967, and subsequently 2 and 6 years later. The analysis of the stability of marital plans and educational expectations in this report focused only on these attitudes during the sophomore and senior years. The analysis for females indicated that the correlation between marital plans and educational expectations observed in cross-sectional data results from marital plans, in part determining subsequent development of educational expectations, whereas the reverse influence is of negligible effect. At a higher level of abstraction, it would support the contention that marriage and possibly motherhood were major goals for women relative to educational considerations. The same analysis for males, however, resulted in the lack of any relationship between the 2 variables. (KM)