TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sappleton,Natalie
TI  - Voluntary and involuntary childlessness: the joys of otherhood? 
T2  - Emerald Studies in Reproduction, Culture, and Society
SN  - 9781787543614 (e-book)
AV  - HQ755.8 .V65 2018
U1  - 305 23
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
KW  - Childlessness
KW  - Parenting
KW  - Family & Relationships / Parenting
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Sociology: family & relationships
KW  - bicssc
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - 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 the organisations in which they work. Bringing together research from a wide range of scholarly disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, sociology, gender studies, social work and social policy, and underpinned by a feminist ontology this edited collection of original chapters provides an insight into the current state of the art research on the drivers, determinants, manifestations and outcomes of childlessness. The collection is intended to be a key resource for scholars, students and policymakers addressing this issue in a wide range of disciplinary contexts.
UR  - https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781787543614
ER  -