Childlessness in Europe : Contexts, Causes, and Consequences
- المؤلف
- Michaela Kreyenfeld, Dirk Konietzka
- سنة النشر
- 2017
- الناشر
- Springer
- لغة الملف
- انكليزي
- نوع الملف
- Book
- تصنيف الكتاب
- Social Science
- تحميل الكتاب قراءة الكتاب
This open access book provides an overview of childlessness throughout Europe. It offers a collection of papers written by leading demographers and sociologists that examine contexts, causes, and consequences of childlessness in countries throughout the region.The book features data from all over Europe. It specifically highlights patterns of childlessness in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Austria and Switzerland. An additional chapter on childlessness in the United States puts the European experience in perspective.
الكلمات المفتاحية: Social sciences / Biographical patterns / Childlessness throughout Europe / Determinants of lifelong childlessness / Increasing childlessness / Life course dynamics / Role of Economic uncertainty / Fertility and assisted reproduction / Demography / Population economics / Sociology, general
