The Religious Claim on Babies in Nineteenth-Century Montreal

The authors' studies of infants and their families in nineteenth-century Montreal determined that cultural community played a more powerful role in infant mortality than economic factors and population density. Francophone Catholic babies were a third more likely to die than either Anglophone (Irish) Catholic infants or Anglophone (English or Scots) Protestant infants. The authors examine the different ways that Anglophone Catholics, most of whom were of the same economic class as Francophone Catholics, differed from the latter, and at times statistically resembled the Anglophone Protestant population.

Religion and the Decline of Fertility in the Western World

Dordrecht, Netherlands

Springer

2006

207-233

en

978-1-4020-5189-0