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Fertility Rates and Population Decline

No Time for Children?

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Ann Buchanan

    1. University of Oxford, UK

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  2. Anna Rotkirch

    1. Population Research Institute, Finland

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. What Is Happening to Fertility Behaviour?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. No Time for Children? The Key Questions

      • Ann Buchanan, Anna Rotkirch
      Pages 3-21

    3. Demographic Transitions and Familial Change: Comparative International Perspectives

      • David S. Reher
      Pages 22-43

    4. The Growth of the One-child Family and Other Changes in the Low Fertility Countries of Asia

      • Gavin W. Jones
      Pages 44-61

    5. Childlessness: Choice and Circumstances

      • John Haskey
      Pages 62-81

    6. Population Decline — Facing an Inevitable Destiny?

      • David Coleman, Bob Rowthorn
      Pages 82-101

  3. What Are the Reasons for Women Having Fewer Children?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Why Are Women Having Fewer Babies? The Views of Mumsnet Users

      • Justine Roberts, Kate Williams, Ann Buchanan
      Pages 105-120

    3. Young Women’s Relationships, Contraception and Unintended Pregnancy in the United States

      • Jennifer S. Barber, Yasamin Kusunoki, Heather H. Gatny, Jennifer Yarger
      Pages 121-140

    4. Crisis and Control: Russia’s Dramatic Fertility Decline and Efforts to Increase It

      • Brienna Perelli-Harris, Olga Isupova
      Pages 141-156

    5. The Choice of Having a Second Child and Its Implication for Future Family Structure in China

      • Zhenzhen Zheng
      Pages 157-165

    6. Childbearing and the Impact of HIV: The South African Experience

      • Lorna Benton, Marie-Louise Newell
      Pages 166-184

    7. Declining Fertility, Television and the (Mis)representation of Motherhood

      • Stuart Basten
      Pages 185-202

  4. What Will Be the Impact of Women Having Fewer Babies?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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    2. What Will Be the Impact on the Well-being of Children?

      • Ann Buchanan
      Pages 205-220

    3. Falling Fertility, Ageing and Europe’s Demographic Deficit

      • Sarah Harper
      Pages 221-229

    4. The Impact on Mothers: Managing the Competing Needs

      • Ann Buchanan
      Pages 230-248

    5. Baby Fever and Longing for Children

      • Anna Rotkirch
      Pages 249-266

  5. A Look into the Crystal Ball: Possible Responses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 267-267
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About this book

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?

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Oxford, UK

    Ann Buchanan

  • Population Research Institute, Finland

    Anna Rotkirch

About the editors

Jennifer Barber, Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, USA Stuart Basten, Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford, UK David Coleman, Demography at the University of Oxford, UK Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Sociology at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Heather Gatny, Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, USA Anne H. Gauthier, Sociology at the University of Calgary, Canada Sarah Harper, Gerontology at Oxford University, UK John Haskey, University of Oxford, UK Olga Isupova, Institute of Demography at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia Gavin W. Jones, Asia Research Institute at the national University of Singapore Yasamin Kusunoki, Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, USA Marie-Louise Newell, Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, South Africa Brienna Perelli-Harris, University of Southampton, UK David S. Reher, the Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociologia of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Justine Roberts, Mumsnet, UK Kate Williams, Mumsnet, UK Robert Rowthorn, University of Cambridge, UK Jennifer Yarger, University of California, USA Zhenzhen Zheng, Institute of Population and Labor Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Science, China

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