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Measuring attitudes towards voluntary childlessness: Indicators in European comparative surveys. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe prevalence of voluntary childlessness is rising in Europe, likely accompanied by growing social acceptance. However, more evidence is needed on how to measure this acceptance in comparative surveys.
Ivett Szalma +2 more
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Framing reproductive narratives: A thematic discourse analysis of news representations of childlessness in 86 countries (2015-2025). [PDF]
PLOS Global Public HealthChildlessness is an increasingly visible phenomenon. Once predominantly associated with high-income settings, it now spans diverse cultural, economic, and political contexts, including the Global South.
Sitta Fiakhsani Taqwim +8 more
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A model of voluntary childlessness [PDF]
Journal of Population Economics, 2012 Demographers and sociologists have studied why women remain childless for more than two decades; however, this specific choice of zero fertility has not interested economists. Permanent childlessness, in developed countries, can concern up to 30 % of the women in a cohort.
Paula E Gobbi
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Risk of childlessness in help-seeking men with Peyronie's disease-A Swedish longitudinal study. [PDF]
PLoS ONEPeyronie's disease (PD) is a disorder of the penis that is associated with poor mental health, lowered psychosocial- and sexual wellbeing, which may increase the risk of childlessness in men affected by the disorder.
Ralf Kuja-Halkola +4 more
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Childlessness among women of reproductive age in Serbia from a demographic perspective [PDF]
Stanovništvo, 2021 The social, economic, and cultural changes that have taken place in Europe in the past few decades in the field of fertility have been accompanied by an increase in permanent childlessness.
Penev Goran, Stanković Biljana
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Childlessness: Concept Analysis [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022 The purpose of this concept analysis is to explore childlessness and provide understanding to professionals involved in the field of infertility. Walker and Avant’s method was used to identify descriptions, antecedents, consequences, and empirical referents of the concept. A model with related and contrary cases was developed. The analysis was based on
Olga Gouni +4 more
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BMJ Open, 2023 Introduction In recent decades, there has been a significant increase in childlessness. This paper analysed childlessness in China, specifically examining its socio and regional disparities.Methods With data from China’s 2020 population census ...
Yu Jiang +4 more
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Voluntarily childless men: socio-cultural reasons why young Poles are not assuming a parental role
Przeglad Socjologii Jakosciowej, 2022 The author explores the phenomenon of voluntary childlessness in Poland. She presents the results of her own research as part of a broader analysis of the issue of intentional childlessness.
Emilia Garncarek
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Social Inclusion, 2022 The article focuses on the social differences in the attitudes toward female and male voluntary childlessness in Bulgaria and their dynamics over time. The analysis is based on data from the European Social Survey conducted in 2006 and 2018 in Bulgaria ...
Elitsa Dimitrova, Tatyana Kotzeva
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Childless Expectations and Childlessness Over the Life Course [PDF]
Social Forces, 2018 Using nineteen panels of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY-79), we construct life-lines characterizing women's childless expectations and fertility behavior. One-quarter of women in the NLSY-79 cohort ever reported an expectation for childlessness but only 14.8 percent of women remain childless. Childless women follow two predominant
Anna, Rybińska, S Philip, Morgan
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