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Exploring Psychopathology in Antinatalist and Childfree Individuals: A Cross‐Sectional Analysis

open access: yesMental Health Science, Volume 4, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT As fertility rates decline in industrialized nations, an increasing number of adults expect to remain without children. While often grouped together in demographic studies, non‐parents comprise diverse subgroups with distinct motivations. Despite growing discourse around reproductive choices, the psychological functioning of these specific ...
Yannick Vander Zwalmen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

New frontiers of family - Naomi Moller and Victoria Clarke explore embryo donation and voluntary childlessness, ahead of their Society seminar series [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
March sees the first of four seminars on ‘New Frontiers of Family’, a British Psychological Society sponsored series that aims to examine the psychological implications of emerging forms of family in the UK – those beyond genetic relatedness, and those ...
Moller, Naomi P., Clarke, Victoria
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Individual and familial factors influencing women’s reluctance to childbearing: A qualitative study [PDF]

open access: yesحیات
Background & Aim: Iran currently experiences a fertility rate below the replacement level, with decisions regarding childbearing influenced by various factors.
Leili Borimnejad   +3 more
doaj  

Exploring the leaky pipeline: Tokenism, status group effects, or self‐selection?

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, Volume 23, Issue 3, Page 607-629, September 2026.
Abstract In most European universities today, more than 50% of bachelor's degrees are awarded to women, but the corresponding share of full professorships is only about 25%. This phenomenon is called the leaky pipeline. Most explanations refer to gender biases and stereotypes, motherhood, discrimination, and tokenism.
Margit Osterloh, Katja Rost
wiley   +1 more source

Voluntary, involuntary and temporary childlessness in the United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Résumé Cet article étudie la prévalence, les profils ainsi que les modèles d’infécondité aux Etats-Unis. Après une revue de littérature, nous analysons les taux d’infécondité parmi les populations de femmes blanches, noires et hispaniques.
Cristina E. Cruz   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Integrating Merit and Equality to Address Gender Inequality at Work

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 1997-2006, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Although the extant literature provides a comprehensive account of workplace gender inequalities, the mechanisms that produce inequalities, and the underlying assumptions and principles of those mechanisms, remain opaque. The concept of “merit,” although morally persuasive and ubiquitous in organizational contexts, is a significant point of ...
Paula McDonald   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Voluntary childlessness in the Czech Republic in the international context [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This thesis "Voluntary childlessness in the Czech Republic in the international context" is focused on the phenomenon of voluntary childlessness, that has been increasing in the past twenty years in the Czech Republic and other countries.
Trdličková, Gabriela
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Unveiling childfree voices: representation, humor, and resistance on Instagram

open access: yesmethaodos.revista de ciencias sociales
This research aims to reveal the social representation of voluntary childlessness (VC) on Instagram, focusing on how individuals construct and defend their childfree identity in a digital visual environment. Grounded in Social Representations Theory (SRT)
Esra Bozkanat
doaj   +1 more source

Why We Want Children: The Value of Children and the Preferred Number of Children in the Czech Republic

open access: yesSociologický Časopis, 2009
Surveys often reveal that the number of children people would like to have is greater than the number they actually have. This article examines the question of why people actually want children and bases its answers on data from the 2006 Value of ...
Petr Pakosta
doaj   +1 more source

What Makes Mothers Decide (Not) to Become Entrepreneurs? Unpacking the Role of Time and Money in Parental Leave Policies

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 2466-2508, September 2026.
Abstract Whether mothers become entrepreneurs after childbirth may depend on the generosity of the parental leave that they receive. We apply a resource perspective to disentangle the impact of the policy's time and money components on mothers' likelihood of becoming entrepreneurs.
Pomme Theunissen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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