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Personality and voluntary childlessness

Journal of Population Research, 2015
This study examined the association between personality and childbearing motivation, with a focus on voluntary childlessness. 780 adults completed an online survey assessing the Big Five personality traits, the trait of Independence, desire for parenthood, motivations for choosing childlessness and various other socio-demographic characteristics ...
Adrian Furnham
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A model of voluntary childlessness [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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.
Gobbi, Paula Eugenia
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Childless or Childfree? Paths to Voluntary Childlessness in Italy

open access: yesPopulation and Development Review, 2008
This article investigates childlessness in Italy. Trends in childlessness are presented and compared with trends elsewhere in Europe. Different paths to childlessness are outlined, using data from a survey carried out among childless women aged 40‐44 in five Italian cities in 2002.
TANTURRI, MARIA LETIZIA, MENCARINI L.
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Voluntary childlessness and the Women's Liberation Movement

Population and Environment, 1983
This study examines the relationship between involvement in the Women's Liberation Movement and voluntary childlessness. Data from two separate probability samples of university women were used to test the hypothesis that involvement in the Women's Liberation Movement is positively related to actual and expected voluntary childlessness.
exaly   +2 more sources

Voluntary Childlessness:

Marriage and Family Review, 1979
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Voluntary Childlessness

Journal of Family Issues, 1982
Despite the recent proliferation of research on the topic of voluntary childlessness, a substantive theory has yet to be developed. A major objective of this article is to undertake such a theoretical formulation. A focus on social structural variables, that is, female education and employment, has led demographers and others to predict a phenomenal ...
Elissa Benedek   +2 more
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