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Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, Causes, and Consequences
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.
The book offers readers such insights as the determinants of lifelong childlessness, whether governments can and should counteract increasing childlessness, how the phenomenon differs across social strata and the role economic uncertainties play. In addition, the book also examines life course dynamics and biographical patterns, assisted reproduction as well as the consequences of childlessness. Childlessness has been increasing rapidly in most European countries in recent decades.
This book offers readers expert analysis into this issue from leading experts in the field of family behavior. From causes to consequences, it explores the many facets of childlessness throughout Europe to present a comprehensive portrait of this important demographic and sociological trend.
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Keywords
- Austria
- Biographical patterns
- Childlessness
- Childlessness throughout Europe
- Demography
- Determinants of lifelong childlessness
- Family & health
- Fertility
- Fertility and assisted reproduction
- Finland
- Germany
- Health & personal development
- Increasing childlessness
- Life course dynamics
- Population economics
- Role of Economic uncertainty
- Sociology, general
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- thema EDItEUR::V Health, Relationships and Personal development::VF Family and health
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44667-7web: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-44667-7
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