Changes in marital and procreative projections among rural Louisiana high school youth between 1968 and 1972 were examined. In 1968 a proportionate, stratified, random cluster sampling technique was employed to secure data on seniors from 13 white and 7 black high schools. In 1972 public school integration and the establishment of private schools…

A theoretical model based on path analytic logic was used to examine the relative influences of social origin and significant other influences on marital, fertility, and educational plans. Parents' education and the major family income-earner's occupation were used as measures of social origin; perceived encouragement by parents, teachers,…

Data gathered via random sampling from white, unmarried high school seniors (143 males and 158 females) in rural Louisiana were utilized to test the following hypotheses: (1) social origin will affect significant other influence; (2) social origin and significant other influence will affect educational plans and will be largely mediated through…