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The main purpose of this paper is to examine religious involvement as measured by church attendance, and how it is related to various dimensions of sexual expression within marriage for women. Data on marital sexual behavior as related to church attendance is examined for 1,442 Australian women and 2,372 women in the United States. In general the evidence supports the assumption that women who are religious are more conservative in their sexual behavior than are women who are not religious. Our evidence also indicates that religion tends to influence marital sex in Australia and the United States in essentially the same way. There is some evidence that sex roles are more segregated in Australia and there is more confusion and frustration on the part of Australian women in sexual matters than there is for American women.

Landing bulletins provide records of amounts and values of various living marine resources taken by California's commercial fisheries, and summarize catches made by the partyboat sportfishing industry. They also detail the small quantities of freshwater fish taken commercially in inland areas. These data provide the basic background for managing California's marine fishery resources. The published figures are of local, national, and international significance, and are used by fisheries scientists, legislators, educators, members of the fishing industry, and others interested in California fisheries. This report for 1970 is the 30th in the series of landing bulletins. The first, published in 1929, contained the records of the 1926 and 1927 commercial fish landings. California's fishery statistics are based on a system whereby fish dealers, processors, and partyboat operators send duplicate copies of their landing records to the Department. The statistical system and methods used to collect the records were fully described in Fish Bulletin 86, which reported the catch for 1950. In the intervening years, methods and equipment have been modified as conditions warranted, but the basic principles have remained unchanged.

Three samples of lower class Negro women were compared. One overall finding was a higher positive view toward marriage among the women in England than for those in the other two countries. The English women were more apt to define the sexual aspects of marriage within an egalitarian view of marriage. Basically the view of the Negro woman in the English sample was that men and women should have equal rights sexually and those rights should be met within marriage. The American and Trinidad Negro respondents were much less apt to see the sexual expression of husbands and wives restricted entirely to the marriage relationship.

Competition & conflict between diff ethnic, religious, or racial groups may result in either accommodation, assimilation, or cultural pluralism. The latter is seen to portray the relationships between Negroes & East Indians in Trinidad & Tobago at the present time. A brief historical review of the 2 groups is given. An analysis of marriage patterns shows diff's between the 2 cultural groups. Data were derived from interviews with 200 Negro women & 100 Indian women who were asked to respond to a, 71-item 0. Diff's in the 2 sample groups re age, educ, & area where born as well as religion & number of women working are pointed out. 92% of the Indian women said they were married vs 60% of the Negro women; the rest were single (never married, widowed, separated, or divorced). Indian women married on the average at age 18.6, Negro women at age 21.5 yrs. Statistical comparisons of the data show the following major diff's: (1) Marriage: Far more Indian than Negro women were legally married. Indian women tended to rate their marriages at a higher leven than did Negro women & marriage seems to be more important to the former than the latter. This may be a reflection of the immediate patriarchal past of the Indian R's. (2) Sexual dimension of the marriage: Negro women placed greater importance on sex for both their husbands & for themselves. The lower importance given to sex for themselves by Indian women is probably a reflection of their patriarchal past which, it is stated, placed little importance on the sexual needs of the women. (3) Parenthood: both groups have large fam's & started having their children at young ages. Given a choice, many of the women would now prefer to have fewer children. When faced with a, forced choice of being wife or mother, both groups overwhelmingly chose being a mother. (4) Illegitimacy: 2 out of every 3 Negro mothers in the study had at least 1 illegitimate child vs 1 out of every 10 Indian women. Negro women placed less stigma on the illegitimate mother than Indian women, but both felt it was important to marry to make the child legitimate. (5) Child-rearing: Indian women usually reared their children by themselves while Negro women were more apt to have the help of the father. Yet the latter more than the former felt the father & husband could have contributed more to the care of the child. The Indian woman expected less & got less in the way of help from the father in rearing the children. M. Maxfield.

The Negro Lc in the US may be viewed as a pervasive ongoing subculture. Res has shown that little value is attached to marriage among Lc Negroes in the US, & as a result, F- headed fam's are very common. The historical background & the familial patterns of the US Negro are similar to the historical background & familial patterns of the Negroes in the West Indies. With the migration of US Negroes to the industr'ized northern Ur centers, the rate of illegitimacy has increased. The problem to be answered is if this trend would also take place with the migration of West Indian Negroes to the industr'ized Ur areas of the UK? To arrive at an answer the res would have to make an analysis of the adult Negro pop in the northern cities who have nevertheless been reared in the Ru south. In the UK the analysis would have to involve a study of the migrants' fam's from the West Indies. The US study was done in Philadelphia, Pa & consisted of a sample of 194 mothers with at least 1 child between the ages of 4 & 7. The interviewers were 2 Negro F graduate students & the interview consisted of 102 items. In the UK the study was undertaken in Reading & the N=200 women, all of whom had at least 1 child under the age of 10. A 72 item interview was used. The soc backgrounds of the women are discussed. 90% of the West Indian women had been married, 40% of the Philadelphia women were married. A discussion of illegitimacy, sexual values, parenthood, child rearing practices & aspirations for children is presented & summarized. The important sociol'al distinction between the 2 groups of women is the condition of the physical, soc & psychol'al ghettos in which the US Negro Lc lives In England there are no ghettos of West Indians, & therefore the West Indian sees himself as being a signif part of the British culture. G. Satt.