Abstract

By Michaela Kreyenfeld and Dirk Konietzka Series Demographic Research MonographsPartially translated from Ein Leben ohne Kinder, Springer, 2013Hardcover US$59.99978-3-319-44665-3

Highlights

  • This impressive, statistic-dense volume, published by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, presents an overview of trends in demographic behaviour toward childlessness, focusing primarily, though not exclusively, on Western Europe

  • While the individual chapters take on a range of topics, the most prevalent of these are inquiries into the social stratification of childlessness as well as the social and biological limits of childlessness, including fertility, the family, and their relationship to social policy

  • Sweden, and Finland receive special attention; given the availability of longitudinal studies, the authors successfully extend their inquiry into the data sets available from elsewhere in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe—the UK, Scandinavia, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Czech Republic, etc

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Introduction

Childlessness makes several crucial and commendable contributions to the discipline of demography, and to social studies of population in general, such as family, children, or ageing studies.

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