ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the relationships between religion and social class, attitudes to birth control, actual and intended family size, the use of contraceptive techniques and opinions about family planning services among mothers. A relatively high proportion of Catholic wives with husbands in semi-skilled jobs approved of birth control. This is probably a 'freak' finding: the people seem out of line in relation to both religion and social class variations. Analysis of the relationship between the religion of mothers and that of their general practitioners shows Catholic mothers were no more or less likely than other mothers to have Catholic doctors, but a high proportion of Catholic mothers with Catholic husbands had Jewish doctors—21 per cent compared with 8 per cent of other mothers. A relatively high proportion of both Jewish and Catholic doctors worked on their own; and more of them than of the other doctors looked after 3,500 or more patients.
