Fertility rates and population decline : no time for children?
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Fertility rates and population decline : no time for children?
（Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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Description
While many worry about population overload, this book highlights the dramatic fall in fertility rates globally exploring questions such as why are parents having fewer babies? Will this lead to population decline? What will be the impact of a world with fewer children and can social policy reverse fertility decline?
Table of Contents
- 1. No Time for Children? The Key Questions
- Ann Buchanan & Anna Rotkirch 2. Demographic Transitions and Familial Change: Comparative International Perspectives
- David Reher 3. The Growth of the One-Child Family and Other Changes in the Low Fertility Countries of Asia
- Gavin W. Jones 4. Childlessness: Choice and Circumstances, Chance and Change
- John Haskey 5. Population Decline - Facing an Inevitable Destiny?
- David Coleman & Bob Rowthorn 6. Why are Women Having Fewer Babies? The Views of Mumsnet Users
- Justine Roberts, Kate Williams & Ann Buchanan 7. Young Women's Relationships, Contraception and Unintended Pregnancy in the United States
- Jennifer S. Barber, Yasamin Kusunoki, Heather H. Gatny & Jennifer Yarger 8. Crisis and Control: Russia's Dramatic Fertility Decline and Efforts to Increase it
- Brienna Perelli-Harris & Olga Issoupova 9. The Choice of Having a Second Child and Its Implication on the Future Family Structure in China
- Zhenzhen Zheng 10. Childbearing and the Impact of HIV: The South African Experience
- Lorna Benton & Marie-Louise Newell 11. Declining Fertility, Television and the (Mis)Representation of Motherhood
- Stuart Basten 12. What Will be the Impact of the Well-being of Children?
- Ann Buchanan 13. Falling Fertility, Ageing and the Demographic Deficit
- Sarah Harper 14. The Impact on Mothers: Managing the Competing Needs
- Ann Buchanan 15. Baby Fever and Longing for Children
- Anna Rotkirch 16. Family Policy and Fertility: Do Policies Make a Difference?
- Anne Gautier 17. Investing in Early Childhood
- Goesta Esping-Andersen 18. Making Time for Children
- Ann Buchanan & Anna Rotkirch
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