Did owner‐occupation lead to smaller families for interwar working‐class households?1
研究两次世界大战期间英国工人阶级家庭购房与家庭规模的关系，发现购房带来的高成本和消费压力促使家庭限制子女数量，同时郊区意识形态强调高质量育儿，鼓励少生优育。
This article examines the links between working‐class home ownership and family limitation in interwar Britain. Purchasing a suburban house enabled families to buy into a new, aspirational model of working‐class respectability. Embracing this model entailed increased accommodation costs and higher levels of conspicuous consumption, placing great strains on many household budgets. Owner‐occupiers therefore sought to limit the size of their families in order to sustain their new lifestyles. Meanwhile the new suburban ideology strongly emphasized improved standards of childcare, based around creating a high‐quality domestic environment, and thus directly encouraged families to aim for fewer, but better‐resourced children.