Voluntary and involuntary childlessness : the joys of otherhood?

• Other Authors: Sappleton, Natalie (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
• Series: Emerald Studies in Reproduction, Culture, and Society
• Subjects: Childlessness.; Parenting.; Family & Relationships / Parenting > General.; Sociology: family & relationships.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781787543614; 9781787543638
• DOI: 10.1108/9781787543614
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 401 pages).

Childlessness is not a new phenomenon, but empirical evidence from the demographic field has demonstrated that it is on the increase. Furthermore, childlessness has a number of consequences for both women and men, the communities in which they live, their psychic states, their social networks and th...