Fertility rates and population decline : no time for children? / edited by Ann Buchanan, University of Oxford, UK and Anna Rotkirch, Population Research Institute, Finland.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Buchanan, Ann
Rotkirch, Anna, 1966-
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Subjects:
Fertility, Human.
Population.
Physical Description:xvi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on contributors
  • What is happening to fertility behaviour?
  • No time for children? the key questions / Ann Buchanan and Anna Rotkirch
  • Demographic transitions and familial change : comparative international
  • Perspectives / David Reher
  • The growth of the one-child family and other changes in the low fertility
  • Countries of Asia / Gavin W. Jones
  • Childlessness : choice and circumstances : chance and change / John Haskey
  • Population decline : facing an inevitable destiny? / David Coleman and Bob Rowthorn
  • What are the reasons for women having fewer children?
  • Why are women having fewer babies? / The views of Mumsnet users Justine Roberts, Kate Williams and Ann Buchanan
  • Young women's relationships, contraception and unintended pregnancy in the United States / Jennifer S. Barber, Yasamin Kusunoki, Heather H. Gatny,and Jennifer Yarger
  • Crisis and control : Russia's dramatic fertility decline and efforts to increase it / Brianna Perelli-Harris and Olga Issoupova
  • The choice of having a second child and its implication for future family structure in China / Zhenzhen Zheng
  • Childbearing and the impact of HIV : the South African experience / Lorna Benton and Marie-Louise Newell
  • Declining fertility, television and the (mis) representation of motherhood / Stuart Basten
  • What will be the impact of women having fewer babies?
  • What will be the impact on the well-being of children? / Ann Buchanan
  • Falling fertility, ageing, and the demographic deficit / Sarah Harper
  • The impact on mothers : managinG the competing needs / Ann Buchanan
  • Baby fever and longing for children / Anna Rotkirch
  • A look into the crystal ball : possible responses
  • Family policy and fertility : do policies make a difference? / Anne Gautier
  • Investing in early childhood / Gosta Esping-Andersen
  • Making time for children / Ann Buchanan and Anna Rotkirch.