Fertility Rates and Population Decline: No Time for Children?

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
No Time for Children? The Key Questions....Pages 3-21
Demographic Transitions and Familial Change: Comparative International Perspectives....Pages 22-43
The Growth of the One-child Family and Other Changes in the Low Fertility Countries of Asia....Pages 44-61
Childlessness: Choice and Circumstances....Pages 62-81
Population Decline — Facing an Inevitable Destiny?....Pages 82-101
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Why Are Women Having Fewer Babies? The Views of Mumsnet Users....Pages 105-120
Young Women’s Relationships, Contraception and Unintended Pregnancy in the United States....Pages 121-140
Crisis and Control: Russia’s Dramatic Fertility Decline and Efforts to Increase It....Pages 141-156
The Choice of Having a Second Child and Its Implication for Future Family Structure in China....Pages 157-165
Childbearing and the Impact of HIV: The South African Experience....Pages 166-184
Declining Fertility, Television and the (Mis)representation of Motherhood....Pages 185-202
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
What Will Be the Impact on the Well-being of Children?....Pages 205-220
Falling Fertility, Ageing and Europe’s Demographic Deficit....Pages 221-229
The Impact on Mothers: Managing the Competing Needs....Pages 230-248
Baby Fever and Longing for Children....Pages 249-266
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Family Policy and Fertility: Do Policies Make a Difference?....Pages 269-287
Investing in Early Childhood....Pages 288-302
Making Time for Children....Pages 303-318
Back Matter....Pages 319-327