Fertility rates and population decline : no time for children? /

Corporate Author: Palgrave Macmillan
Other Authors: Buchanan, Ann
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Series:Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life
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Table of Contents:
  • What is happening to fertility behaviour?
  • No time for children? the key questions / Ann Buchanan and Anna Rotkirch
  • Demographic transitions and familial change : comparative international perspectives / David S. Reher
  • The growth of the one-child family and other changes in the low fertility countries of Asia / Gavin W. Jones
  • Childlessness : choice and circumstances / John Haskey
  • Population decline : facing an inevitable destiny? / David Coleman and Bob Rowthorn
  • What are the reasons for women having fewer children?
  • Why are women having fewer babies? / The views of Mumsnet users / Justine Roberts, Kate Williams and Ann Buchanan
  • Young women's relationships, contraception and unintended pregnancy in the United States / Jennifer S. Barber, Yasamin Kusunoki, Heather H. Gatny,and Jennifer Yarger
  • Crisis and control : Russia's dramatic fertility decline and efforts to increase it / Brienna Perelli-Harris and Olga Isupova
  • The choice of having a second child and its implication for future family structure in China / Zhenzhen Zheng
  • Childbearing and the impact of HIV : the South African experience / Lorna Benton and Marie-Louise Newell
  • Declining fertility, television and the (mis) representation of motherhood / Stuart Basten
  • What will be the impact of women having fewer babies?
  • What will be the impact on the well-being of children? / Ann Buchanan
  • Falling fertility, ageing, and Europe's demographic deficit / Sarah Harper
  • The impact on mothers : managing the competing needs / Ann Buchanan
  • Baby fever and longing for children / Anna Rotkirch
  • A look into the crystal ball : possible responses
  • Family policy and fertility : do policies make a difference? / Anne H. Gauthier
  • Investing in early childhood / G2sta Esping-Andersen
  • Making time for children / Ann Buchanan and Anna Rotkirch