When Nieces and Nephews become Important: Differences between Childless Women and Mothers in Relationships with Nieces and Nephews

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas V. Pollet ◽  
Toon Kuppens ◽  
Robin I. M. Dunbar
Keyword(s):  
Childless Women

Using intentions to predict fertility

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Johannes Norling
Keyword(s):  
Rational Expectations ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Income Dynamics ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Childless Women

Abstract On average, childless women observed by the Panel Study of Income Dynamics report that they intend to have more children than they actually have. A collection of intentions that record only whether respondents intend to have another child can more accurately predict the number of children they have. Errors in the formation of intentions are not required to explain this finding. Rather, if intentions record a survey respondent's most likely predicted number of children, then the average of these intentions does not necessarily equal average actual fertility, even if intentions are formed using rational expectations.

scholarly journals Opportunities, constraints and constrained opportunities - A study on mothers' working time patterns in 22 European countries

2014 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milla Salin
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Working Time ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Time Pattern ◽  
Childless Women ◽  
Actual Working ◽  
Time Patterns ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time

The aim of this study was to analyze mothers’ working time patters across 22 European countries. The focu was on three questions: how much mothers prefer to work, how much they actually work, and to what degree their preferred and actual working times are (in)consistent with each other. The focus was on cross-national differences in mothers’ working time patterns, comparison of mothers’ working times to that of childless women and fathers, as well as on individual- and country-level factors that explain the variation between them.In the theoretical background, the departure point was an integrative theoretical approach where the assumption is that there are various kinds of explanations for the differences in mothers’ working time patterns – namely structural, cultural and institutional – , and that these factors are laid in two levels: individual- and country-levels. Data were extracted from the European Social Survey (ESS) 2010 / 2011.The results showed that mothers’ working time patterns, both preferred and actual working times, varied across European countries. Four clusters were formed to illustrate the differences. In the full-time pattern, full-time work was the most important form of work, leaving all other working time forms marginal. The full-time pattern was perceived in terms of preferred working times in Bulgaria and Portugal. In polarised pattern countries, full-time work was also important, but it was accompanied by a large share of mothers not working at all. In the case of preferred working times, many Eastern and Southern European countries followed it whereas in terms of actual working times it included all Eastern and Southern European countries as well as Finland. The combination pattern was characterised by the importance of long part-time hours and full-time work. It was the preferred working time pattern in the Nordic countries, France, Slovenia, and Spain, but Belgium, Denmark, France, Norway, and Sweden followed it in terms of actual working times. The fourth cluster that described mothers’ working times was called the part-time pattern, and it was illustrated by the prevalence of short and long part-time work. In the case of preferred working times, it was followed in Belgium, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Besides Belgium, the part-time pattern was followed in the same countries in terms of actual working times. The consistency between preferred and actual working times was rather strong in a majority of countries. However, six countries fell under different working time patterns when preferred and actual working times were compared.Comparison of working mothers’, childless women’s, and fathers’ working times showed that differences between these groups were surprisingly small. It was only in part-time pattern countries that working mothers worked significantly shorter hours than working childless women and fathers. Results therefore revealed that when mothers’ working times are under study, an important question regarding the population examined is whether it consists of all mothers or only working mothers.Results moreover supported the use of the integrative theoretical approach when studying mothers’ working time patterns. Results indicate that mothers’ working time patterns in all countries are shaped by various opportunities and constraints, which are comprised of structural, cultural, institutional, and individual-level factors.Keywords: mother, working time pattern; preferred working time, actual working time, integrative theoretical approach, comparative research

scholarly journals Knowing and Not Knowing about Fertility: Childless Women and Age-Related Fertility Decline

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-48
Author(s):  
Lauren Jade Martin
Keyword(s):  
Fertility Decline ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Childless Women ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Reproductive Decision Making ◽  
Biomedical Diagnostics ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
Knowledge Claims

Knowledge claims may play an essential role in reproductive decision-making, as individuals seek out, assess, reject, and use information about health and fertility gathered from numerous sources. This paper focuses specifically on childless women’s self-perceptions of knowledge about infertility and age-related fertility decline. How knowledgeable do childless women perceive themselves to be about fertility and infertility in general, and from where they do they obtain this knowledge? Furthermore, how knowledgeable do childless women perceive themselves to be about their own fertility and ability to conceive, and to what do they attribute this knowledge? Data for this project was gathered through semi-structured interviews with 72 childless American women; the interviews were inductively and thematically coded using qualitative-analysis software. Childless women assessed their general knowledge of fertility as confident, self-doubting, or novices, and they claimed multiple sources as the basis of this knowledge, including formal education and training, media and popular culture, and family members and peers. When assessing knowledge about their own fecundity, the women tended to rely on two additional sources: biomedical diagnostics and embodied knowledge. Childless women’s awareness of average statistics of age-related fertility decline did not necessarily translate to individual self-knowledge about their own bodies and fecundity. Because knowledge claims were based on multiple information sources given unequal weight, this raises questions about authoritative knowledge—that is, the knowledge that “counts” for women as they make decisions regarding their future childbearing.

scholarly journals Identity Rework through Stigma Management among Childless Women

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-159
Author(s):  
Mee-Hae Kong ◽  
이수연
Keyword(s):  
Stigma Management ◽  
Childless Women

Psychological adaptation to pregnancy in childless women more than 35 years of age

1988 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-170
Author(s):  
GE Robinson ◽  
DM Garner ◽  
DJ Gare ◽  
B Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Adaptation ◽  
Childless Women

Voluntary sterilisation of young childless women: not so fast

2020 ◽  
pp. medethics-2019-105933
Author(s):  
Zeljka Buturovic
Keyword(s):  
Birth Control ◽  
Childless Women ◽  
Elective Procedure

An increasing number of bioethicists are raising concerns that young childless women requesting sterilisation as means of birth control are facing unfair obstacles. It is argued that these obstacles are inconsistent, paternalistic, that they reflect pronatalist bias and that men seem to face fewer obstacles. It is commonly recommended that physicians should change their approach to this type of patient. In contrast, I argue that physicians’ reluctance to eagerly follow an unusual request is understandable and that whatever obstacles result from this reluctance serve as a useful filter for women who are not seriously committed to their expressed requests for sterilisation. As women already disproportionally bear the birth control burden, less resistance that men might be getting in terms of voluntary sterilisation works to women’s advantage, providing a much needed balance. Societal attitudes towards women and motherhood should not be confused with individual physicians’ reasonable reluctance to jump at a serious elective procedure at fairly mild expression of interest.

The stressors and vulnerabilities of young single childless women with breast cancer: A qualitative study

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roslyn Corney ◽  
Shuby Puthussery ◽  
Jane Swinglehurst
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Childless Women

scholarly journals Can Women Have Children and a Career? IV Evidence from IVF Treatments

2017 ◽  
Vol 107 (6) ◽  
pp. 1611-1637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petter Lundborg ◽  
Erik Plug ◽  
Astrid Würtz Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
In Vitro Fertilization ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Causal Effect ◽  
Treatment Success ◽  
Extensive Margin ◽  
Vitro Fertilization ◽  
Childless Women ◽  
Fertility Variation

This paper introduces a new IV strategy based on IVF (in vitro fertilization) induced fertility variation among childless women to estimate the causal effect of having children on their career. For this purpose, we use administrative data on IVF treated women in Denmark. Because observed chances of IVF success do not depend on labor market histories, IVF treatment success provides a plausible instrument for childbearing. Our IV estimates indicate that fertility effects on earnings are: (i) negative, large, and long-lasting; (ii) driven by fertility effects on hourly earnings and not so much on labor supply; and (iii) much stronger at the extensive margin than at the intensive margin. (JEL D82, J13, J16, J22, J31, J32)

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document