Fertility Rates and Population Decline [electronic resource] : No Time for Children? /
Buchanan, A.editor.
Rotkirch, A.editor.
While many worry about population overload, this book highlights the dramatic fall in fertility rates globally exploring questions such as why are parents having fewer babies? Will this lead to population decline? What will be the impact of a world with fewer children and can social policy reverse fertility decline?
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Part I: What Is Happening to Fertility Behaviour?; 1 No Time for Children? The Key Questions; 2 Demographic Transitions and Familial Change: Comparative International Perspectives; 3 The Growth of the One-child Family and Other Changes in the Low Fertility Countries of Asia; 4 Childlessness: Choice and Circumstances; 5 Population Decline - Facing an Inevitable Destiny?; Part II: What Are the Reasons for Women Having Fewer Children?; 6 Why Are Women Having Fewer Babies? The Views of Mumsnet Users
7 Young Women's Relationships, Contraception and Unintended Pregnancy in the United States8 Crisis and Control: Russia's Dramatic Fertility Decline and Efforts to Increase It; 9 The Choice of Having a Second Child and Its Implication for Future Family Structure in China; 10 Childbearing and the Impact of HIV: The South African Experience; 11 Declining Fertility, Television and the (Mis)representation of Motherhood; Part III: What Will Be the Impact of Women Having Fewer Babies?; 12 What Will Be the Impact on the Well-being of Children?
13 Falling Fertility, Ageing and Europe's Demographic Deficit14 The Impact on Mothers: Managing the Competing Needs; 15 Baby Fever and Longing for Children; Part IV: A Look into the Crystal Ball: Possible Responses; 16 Family Policy and Fertility: Do Policies Make a Difference?; 17 Investing in Early Childhood; 18 Making Time for Children; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
While many worry about population overload, this book highlights the dramatic fall in fertility rates globally exploring questions such as why are parents having fewer babies? Will this lead to population decline? What will be the impact of a world with fewer children and can social policy reverse fertility decline?
Families.
Families—Social aspects.
Human body—Social aspects.
Social groups.
Family.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Medicine .
Health.
Cultural studies.
Family.
Sociology of the Body.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
Popular Science in Medicine and Health.
Cultural Studies.