The end of children?
Subtitle: changing trends in childbearing and childhood
By: edited by Nathanael Lauster and Graham Allan
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780774821926
Subjects: Histoire; Reproduction humaine; Enfance; Child development; Human reproduction; Développement; Enfants; Children; History
Description: "Fertility rates have fallen dramatically around the world. In some countries, there are no longer enough children being born to replace adult populations. The disappearance of children is a matter of concern matched only by fears that childhood is becoming too structured or not structured enough, too short or too long, or just simply too different from the idealized childhoods of the past.

The End of Children? brings together scholars who draw on their expertise in multiple disciplines - sociology, demography, history, anthropology, family studies, social work, and education - to provide a more balanced, less alarmist perspective on the meanings and implications of these issues. Contrary to predictions of the end of children and the end of childhood, their investigations of developments in Canada and the United States, and to a lesser extent elsewhere in the world, show that fertility rates and ideas about children and childhood are not uniform but rather vary around the globe based on factors such as time, culture, class, income, and age."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fertility change in North America, 1950-2000 /; title: Mira Whyman, Megan Lemmon, and Jay Teachman; title: Changing children and changing cultures : immigration as a source of fertility and the assumptions of assimilation  -- Nathanael Lauster, Todd F. Martin, and James M. White; title: Using infertility, useful fertility : cultural imperatives on the value of children in the United States  -- Rebecca L. Upton; title: The performance of motherhood and fertility decline : a stage props approach  -- Nathanael Lauster; title: Parenthood, immortality, and the end of childhood  -- Nicholas W. Townsend; title: Leaving home : an example of the disappearance of childhood and its end as a predictable set of uniform experiences  -- Adena B.K. Miller; title: The disappearance of parents from children's lives : the cummulative effects of child care, child custody, and child welfare policies in Canada  -- Edward Kruk; title: Navigating the pedagogy of failure : medicine, education, and the disabled child in English Canada, 1900-45  -- Mona Gleason -- Pathologizing childhood / -- Anita Ilta Garey; title: From children to child : ending in China -- Jing Zhao, Nathanael Lauster, and Graham Allan.