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Representations of voluntary childlessness in the UK press, 1990—2008 [PDF]
Journal of Health Psychology, 2009 Representations of voluntary childlessness — the declaration by an individual that he or she does not wish to bear or raise children — were studied in 116 articles published in British national newspapers in the period 1990—2008. Media framing analysis was used to examine broad patterns of framing of the topic, identifying four frames: voluntary ...
Giles, David +2 more
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Voluntary or Involuntary Childlessness? Socio-Demographic Factors and Childlessness Intentions among Childless Finnish Men and Women aged 25-44 [PDF]
Finnish Yearbook of Population Research, 2010 Lifetime childlessness is expected to increase in the future. Recent research suggests that also voluntary childlessness in increasing among young adults.
Anneli Miettinen
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New normativity and reproductive choice: an attempt at comprehension [PDF]
Население и экономика, 2020 The article discusses two “special types” of reproductive choices – combating infertility through assisted reproductive technologies and voluntary childlessness. Particular attention is paid to the phenomenon of voluntary childlessness.
Svetlana A. Bronfman
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Voluntary Childlessness: A Review of the Factors Underlying the Decision Not to Have Children
Psikoloji Çalışmaları, 2021 Although having children is seen as one of the most important functions of adult romantic relationships (e.g., marriage) and it is a common norm followed by married couples, birth rates both around the world and in Turkey have steadily declined over the ...
Ezgi Sakman
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A Phenomenological Study on Voluntarily Childless Women
Psikoloji Çalışmaları, 2020 The way in which women decide to have children is affected by many processes, including personal, social, historical, and political. Maternity is seen as an inevitable part of women’s happiness and a complement to their femininity. In traditional Turkish
Simel Parlak, Işıl Tekin
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, 2017 In recent decades, levels of childlessness have been increasing rapidly in most European countries. German-speaking countries seem to be at the forefront of this development, as more than 20% of the women living in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria ...
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Сhildfree in the Focus of Qualitative Sociological Research
Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія: Соціологічні дослідження сучасного суспільства: методологія, теорія, методи, 2021 The article deals with the problematics of childfree in sociological discourse. It is noted that the concept of "childfree" appears in the context of rethinking the prevailing public discourse about childlessness.
Oleksandr Zubariev
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Shallow Narcissist or Sad Spinster?
Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, 2023 The article charts the way childless women are portrayed in contemporary US-American popular film and television. I argue that these representations can be summarized as two distinct figures: The shallow narcissist and the sad spinster.
Camilla Schwartz
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Lived experiences of voluntary childless iranian couples: An interpretative phenomenological analysis [PDF]
مجله علوم روانشناختی, 2023 Background: Social, economic and cultural changes, increasingly have made new alternatives available to couples. Voluntary childlessness is an emerging and growing alternative lifestyle in Iran and little is known about this phenomenon.
Fahimeh Khajehaminian +3 more
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When Family Policy Doesn’t Work: Motives and Welfare Attitudes Among Childfree Persons in Poland
Social Inclusion, 2022 The primary goal of this article was to analyse the welfare attitudes of people self‐declaring as childless by choice alongside the exploration of their social experience as childfree persons in the context of a rapid increase in the generosity of pro ...
Dorota Szelewa
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