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Intelligence and childlessness

Social Science Research, 2014
Demographers debate why people have children in advanced industrial societies where children are net economic costs. From an evolutionary perspective, however, the important question is why some individuals choose not to have children. Recent theoretical developments in evolutionary psychology suggest that more intelligent individuals may be more ...
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Childless… Or Childfree?

Contexts, 2014
In the context of declining birth rates, sociologist Amy Blackstone examines the choice not to become a parent and considers social responses to that choice.
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CHILDLESSNESS, SUICIDE AND HOMICIDE

Psychological Reports, 1991
A cross-national study of 21 nations yielded a negative association between estimates of childlessness and homicide rates but no association with suicide rates for men or women.
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RESEARCHERS, RELIGION AND CHILDLESSNESS

Journal of Biosocial Science, 2015
SummaryThis study analysed childlessness and religion among female research scientists in the Austrian context. The aim of the study was to investigate the role of religion in intended childlessness and realized childlessness. The analysis was based on a representative sample of Austrian women aged 25–45 (N=2623), with a specific sample of female ...
Isabella Buber-Ennser, Vegard Skirbekk
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Relationship of income and childlessness

Social Biology, 1973
(1973). Relationship of income and childlessness. Social Biology: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 139-142.
P R, Kunz, M B, Brinkerhoff, V, Hundley
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Social and Emotional Aspects of Voluntary Childlessness in Vasectomized Childless Men

Journal of Biosocial Science, 1981
SummaryResponses of 44 vasectomized voluntarily childless men and 51 vasectomized fathers were compared on the California Psychological Inventory, the Bowerman Scale of Marital Satisfaction and a questionnaire. The childless felt negatively stereotyped, but there were no differences between the parents and childless on marital satisfaction, reported ...
R H, Magarick, R A, Brown
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Childlessness and Marital Adjustment

Australian Journal of Sex, Marriage and Family, 1984
The public perception is that marriages without children are less happy and less satisfactory. To put this assumption to empirical test, subscale and total scores on the Spanier Dyadic Adjustment Scale were compared for couples who were early deciders of voluntary childlessness, couples voluntarily childless through postponement, and parents ...
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Voluntary childlessness in the Netherlands

Alternative Lifestyles, 1980
Until recently, Holland has had a high birth rate and a low employment rate for married women when compared with other industrialized countries. This high rate, together with (since 1920) the lowest death rate in Northwestern Europe, has constituted a bona fide “demographic anomaly.” Nevertheless, the picture is now changing rapidly.
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Perceptions of parenthood and childlessness: A comparison of mothers and voluntarily childless wives

Population and Environment, 1983
Fifty mothers and 50 voluntarily childless wives selected from an adjective checklist the personality traits most typical of parents and intentionally childless persons. Both groups of women described parents as "concerned." "loving." "hard-working," "conventional." and "patient," while voluntarily childless wives were more likely to choose the traits "
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Childless Old Age

2009
This chapter presents trends in childlessness over the course of the twentieth century. It also provides a review of the antecedents and consequences of childlessness among older adults. Childlessness has only recently started to figure prominently on the research agenda of the social sciences.
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