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Journal articles on the topic "Voluntary childlessness"

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Garncarek, Emilia. "Voluntarily childless men: socio-cultural reasons why young Poles are not assuming a parental role." Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej 18, no. 1 (February 28, 2022): 112–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8069.18.1.06.

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The author explores the phenomenon of voluntary childlessness in Poland. She presents the results of her own research as part of a broader analysis of the issue of intentional childlessness. The focus of the article is on the reasons why men do not take on a parental role. The first part of the article covers the socio-cultural context of the research into voluntary childlessness, while the second part discusses the results of qualitative research conducted using, among other things, focus group and in-depth interviews with voluntarily childless men. It shows the reasons why men do not assume a parental role and the types of male childlessness by choice.
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Avison, Margaret, and Adrian Furnham. "Personality and voluntary childlessness." Journal of Population Research 32, no. 1 (January 11, 2015): 45–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12546-014-9140-6.

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Gobbi, Paula E. "A model of voluntary childlessness." Journal of Population Economics 26, no. 3 (November 10, 2012): 963–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00148-012-0457-1.

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Gouni, Olga, Gabija Jarašiūnaitė-Fedosejeva, Burcu Kömürcü Akik, Annaleena Holopainen, and Jean Calleja-Agius. "Childlessness: Concept Analysis." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 3 (January 27, 2022): 1464. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031464.

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The purpose of this concept analysis is to explore childlessness and provide understanding to professionals involved in the field of infertility. Walker and Avant’s method was used to identify descriptions, antecedents, consequences, and empirical referents of the concept. A model with related and contrary cases was developed. The analysis was based on the definition of the term in major dictionaries in the Greek, Lithuanian, Finnish, Maltese, and Turkish languages, while further literature searches utilized the Web of Science, PubMed, PsychInfo, Medline, Google Scholar, and National Thesis Databases. The literature search was limited to papers/books published in the authors’ national languages and English. As a result, childlessness is defined as the absence of children in the life of an individual, and this can be voluntary or involuntary. However, the deeper analysis of the concept may be preceded and amplified through cultural, psychological, biological, philosophical, theological, sociological, anthropological, and linguistic aspects throughout history. These elements presented challenges for childless individuals, ultimately influencing their choices to resort to alternative ways of becoming parents, such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), surrogacy, adoption, or other forms of childbearing. Historically, childlessness has been viewed with negative connotations due to its potential impact on the survival of the human species. This negativity can be directed even to individuals who may decide to opt to voluntarily remain childfree. The long-term impact of the experience, both on an individual and collective level, continues to cause pain to those who are involuntarily childless. In conclusion, health professionals and other stakeholders who have a deep understanding of childlessness, including the antecedents and attributes, can minimize the potential negative consequences of those factors contributing to childlessness, whether voluntary or involuntary. In fact, they can capitalize on a powerful impact of change adaptation by providing support to those in their practice to recover the lost homeostasis.
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Gillespie, Rosemary. "Voluntary childlessness in the United Kingdom." Reproductive Health Matters 7, no. 13 (January 1999): 43–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0968-8080(99)90111-8.

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Lampman, Claudia, and Seana Dowling-Guyer. "Attitudes Toward Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness." Basic and Applied Social Psychology 17, no. 1 (August 1, 1995): 213–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15324834basp1701&2_12.

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Lampman, Claudia, and Seana Dowling-Guyer. "Attitudes Toward Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness." Basic and Applied Social Psychology 17, no. 1-2 (August 1995): 213–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01973533.1995.9646140.

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Bolter, Olga S. "Childless by Choice in Contemporary China: Reasons and Consequences." Oriental Courier, no. 1-2 (2021): 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s268684310015763-7.

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The article considers financial, social, and personal reasons for childlessness by choice among young Chinese and analyzes the consequences of such a decision. Voluntary childlessness is a new phenomenon for China that became more present even after the abolition of the one-child policy and an increase in the promotion of early marriages and childbirth. Traditional family values gradually ceased importance in society. Resembling developed Western countries, the majority of voluntary childless Chinese belongs to well-educated urban citizens who prioritize quality life and personal development over having children. However, many decide for childlessness under financial insecurity due to the high living costs in the first-and second-tier cities, lack of a developed social security system, and obligation to support elderly parents. Even though most voluntary childless are satisfied with their choice, they often feel pressured and pushed to childbirth by their families and even by the government. China is facing a growing aging population problem. Attempting to solve the emerging issue, the Party increases propaganda of childbirth, and voluntary childlessness receives more attention in society, which exerts more emotional pressure on childless Chinese, who fear additional stress and discrimination at the workplace and in personal life.
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Huang, Vivian W., Hsiu-Ju Chang, Karen I. Kroeker, Karen J. Goodman, Kathleen M. Hegadoren, Levinus A. Dieleman, and Richard N. Fedorak. "Does the Level of Reproductive Knowledge Specific to Inflammatory Bowel Disease Predict Childlessness among Women with Inflammatory Bowel Disease?" Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology 29, no. 2 (2015): 95–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/715354.

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BACKGROUND: Women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) may choose to remain childless due to a lack of IBD-specific reproductive knowledge.OBJECTIVES: To examine the effects of IBD-specific reproductive knowledge and discussion of family planning with a physician on childlessness among women with IBD.METHODS: Female IBD patients 18 to 45 years of age completed the Crohn’s and Colitis Pregnancy Knowledge questionnaire (CCPKnow), and answered questions regarding reproductive history, plans to have children and discussion of family planning with a physician. CCPKnow scores were grouped according to poor (0 to 7), adequate (8 to 10), good (11 to 13) and very good (14 to 17).RESULTS: Of 434 eligible women, 248 (57.1%) completed the questionnaires. Of these 248 women, 51.6% were childless and, among these, 12.9% were voluntarily childless and 12.1% were trying to become pregnant. Childless women had a lower median CCPKnow score than women with children (6.0 versus 8.0; P=0.001). After adjusting for current age and marital status, each one point increase in the CCPKnow score corresponded to 8% lower odds of childlessness (OR 0.92 [95% CI 0.86 to 0.99]), 9% lower odds of voluntary child-lessness (OR 0.91 [95% CI 0.79 to 1.0]) and 20% higher odds of trying to become pregnant (OR 1.2 [95% CI 1.0 to 1.4]). Discussion of family planning with a gastroenterologist corresponded to 72% lower odds of a poor CCPKnow score (OR 0.28 [95% CI 0.15 to 0.53]) and of voluntary childlessness (OR 0.28 [95% CI 0.057 to 1.3]).CONCLUSION: In the present study, higher IBD-specific reproductive knowledge lowered the odds of childlessness among women with IBD. Discussion of family planning with a physician was associated with higher CCPKnow scores and lower odds of voluntary childlessness.
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Walldorf, Jens, Emilia Pijan, Robin Greinert, Anica Riesner-Wehner, and Patrick Michl. "Family planning with inflammatory bowel disease: the challenge of childlessness and parent concerns." Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie 59, no. 08 (March 18, 2021): 841–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/a-1404-3610.

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Abstract Background In patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), diagnosis is often established at the beginning of childbearing age. Accordingly, concerns about family planning and pregnancy (FPP) are common. Poor knowledge regarding FPP might contribute to increased childlessness in patients with IBD. Methods The Crohn’s and Colitis Pregnancy Knowledge Score (CCPKnow, 17 multiple-choice questions) was translated into German and then used for a web-based survey. Childlessness was analyzed with respect to socio-demographic and disease-related information, and the knowledge (CCPKnow) and concerns of IBD patients with children were compared to those of voluntarily childless (VC) and non-voluntarily childless (NVC) IBD patients. Results Childlessness was observed in 57.4 % of the 533 participants (90.6 % women, 63.0 % Crohn’s disease, 31.5 % ulcerative colitis, mean age 33.2 ± 8.6 years), voluntary childlessness in 9 %. The mean overall CCPKnow was adequate (9.38 ± 3.96). Poor knowledge was not associated with increased childlessness (CCPKnow of < 8 was found in 29.8 % of patients with children and 28.9 % of childless patients, p > 0.5). Instead, the patients’ education, medical advice, FPP-related concerns, impaired body image, and sexual dysfunction had a significant impact on childlessness. Frequent concerns included adverse effects of the patient’s medication on their child (36 % of the respondents), malformation (33 %), miscarriage (34.5 %), and the inheritability of IBD (57 %). Conclusions Factual knowledge does not reduce disease-related concerns or childlessness. Correct but possibly bothersome information on FPP might contribute to childlessness in patients with IBD. Our findings underline the need for qualified counseling of IBD patients regarding FPP by an experienced IBD physician.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Voluntary childlessness"

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Moulet, Christine, and res cand@acu edu au. "Neither ‘Less’ Nor ‘Free’: A long-term view of couples’ experiences and construction of involuntary childlessness." Australian Catholic University. School of Social Work, 2005. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp129.05022007.

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Childlessness, whether voluntary, involuntary or circumstantial, is becoming more common in our society. Statistically, greater numbers of Australian women and their Western counterparts will not bear children, thereby creating a larger quantum of couple families. The unwelcome socio-economic consequences have prompted research into reproductive intentions and behaviour to address barriers to reproduction. Studying those who are childless by ‘choice’ or ‘infertile’ provides important ‘reference points’ but also creates a myopic view of the childless that often overlooks circumstantial factors or ignores the fluctuating nature of fertility intentions. Moreover, the medical discourse on infertility has conditioned our thinking and focused research on the psycho-social effects and impacts of assisted reproduction treatment and its failure. This has blurred and obscured the distinction between infertility and involuntary childlessness. Too often these are viewed through the same prism of grief and bereavement as a temporary but pervasive ‘crisis’ and as impediments to adult development in the long term. The thesis provides new insights that challenge our conventional ways of thinking particularly its findings that although infertility and childlessness are related, they are separate phenomena. This has wide-ranging implications, especially for reformulating related clinical practice and counselling. There are several important considerations. One is the finding that the grief and bereavement model has its limitations beyond the infertility stage. Another is the theoretical reconstruction that the thesis provides of the grief that the involuntary childless experience. Finally, it makes a strong case for a more appropriate alternative which the thesis argues should be based on a growth-oriented model. The time point at which the information for this study was collected has rarely ever been used before. This adds significant weight to the findings and applications that potentially derive from them. The thesis also examines gender issues including the complexities in differential experiences, amongst and across gender categories. It builds on the existing body of knowledge on the gendered experience of involuntary childlessness and offers additional explanations for the variations found, around which clinical interventions should be framed. Overall, this study makes an important contribution to our knowledge and understanding by documenting the transitional process to involuntary childlessness in broader terms than has hitherto been the case. Contrary to conventional thinking related to adult development, the findings underscore the importance of viewing involuntary childlessness as an alternative developmental pathway.
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Ayers, Gillian. ""I could be a father, but I could never be a mother" : values and meanings of women's voluntary childlessness in Southern Alberta." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Sociology, 2012, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/3226.

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This thesis examines the experiences, beliefs, motivations, and perceived costs and benefits of women who are childless by choice in Southern Alberta. I investigate the naturalized and normalized understandings of femininity, motherhood, and citizenship more broadly, and what this means for voluntarily childless women. Using data collected from 21 semi-structured qualitative interviews, I draw on a Foucauldian feminist framework to explore the narratives of voluntarily childless women, and, through subsequent examination, to explore issues of choice, responsibility, pronatalism, identity, and stigma. I first consider how the women negotiate their childbearing decisions in light of competing pronatalist, capitalist, and cultural demands. I then focus on techniques of identity construction by highlighting the negotiations of voluntarily childless women in relation to the physical, emotional, and social costs and benefits of their reproductive decisions. Finally, I explore the varying sources of pressure and support that impact women’s experience in daily life.
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McGuigan, Kimberley. "Outside the norm of maternity, an exploratory study of the experiences of women who have chosen voluntary childlessness." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ66715.pdf.

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Nettelbladt, Ylva. "Attityder till barnfrihet : (Icke-)reproduktionens betydelse." Licentiate thesis, Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-383435.

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This thesis is a study in attitudes towards voluntary childlessness. The specific aim is to investigate attitudes towards voluntary childlessness in a society with pronatalist values: how are they structured and how can the structure be interpreted in the Swedish context? As inspiration and theoretical framework the theory of “the value of children”, that was developed by Lois W. Hoffman and Martin L. Hoffman in the 1970’s USA, was used. In order to fulfill the aim a quantitative survey was conducted on the Internet with 2,283 respondents. The data were factor-analyzed and three main factors were interpreted. These factors were named “The natural parenthood”, “Freedom” and “The personal experience”. They were interpreted as three collective dimensions of thinking about parenthood and voluntary childlessness. The study contributes to our knowledge of pronatalist norms as well as the ways in which attitudes towards voluntary childlessness are shaped. The thesis proposes that pronatalist norms can hide under a supposedly individualistic discourse or under internalized beliefs about naturalness. Positive attitudes towards voluntary childlessness seems to contain, above all, beliefs about freedom.
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Halford, Jeff. "Defending the Voluntarily Childless Decision: Evaluating Accounts with Stigma in Mind." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195963.

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Using the account episode (Schonbach,1992) as a framework, this study examined several variables related to how attributions are made and managed in the context of voluntary childlessness, arguably an instance of concealable stigma (e.g., Park, 2005; 2002). More specifically, the means by which voluntarily childless persons account for their childless decision (and how these accounts are evaluated) were examined, along with factors salient to social identity and intergroup perceptions (e.g., social dominance orientation, self-construal). Extant scholarship suggested that excuses and justifications would be evaluated differently in terms of both their acceptability and the interpersonal implications they carry. Findings indicate that excuses and justifications were not related to the account's acceptability, but did produce different attributions of interpersonal warmth and competence in those who used them. The acceptability of the target's childless decision was higher for those with a strong independent self-construal, and lower for those holding a high social dominance orientation. Few differences between the voluntarily childless man and woman were found. All findings are discussed in the context of both account evaluation and perceptions of the voluntarily childless.
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Harvey, Paul R. "The investigation of voluntarily childless married couples and marital satisfaction /." Read online, 2008. http://library.uco.edu/UCOthesis/HarveyPH2008.pdf.

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Regehr, Kelly A. "Grounds-Based and Grounds-Free Voluntarily Child Free Couples: Privacy Management and Reactions of Social Network Members." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28374/.

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Voluntarily child free (VCF) individuals face stigmatization in a pronatalist society that labels those who do not want children as deviant. Because of this stigmatization, VCF couples face privacy issues as they choose to reveal or conceal their family planning decision and face a variety of reactions from social network members. Therefore, communication privacy management and communication accommodation theory was use to examine this phenomenon. Prior research found two different types of VCF couples: grounds-based and grounds-free. Grounds-based individuals cite medical or biological reasons for not having children, while grounds-free individuals cite social reasons for not having children. The purpose of this study is to examine how grounds-based and grounds-free VCF couples manage their disclosure of private information and how social network members react to their family planning decision. Findings revealed that grounds-free individuals are more likely to engage in the self-defense hypothesis and grounds-based individuals are more likely to engage in the expressive need hypothesis. Grounds-based individuals were asked about their decision in dyadic situations, whereas grounds-free individuals were asked at group gatherings. Additionally, social network members used under-accommodation strategies the most frequently and grounds-free individuals experienced more name calling than grounds-based. Finally, while grounds-free individuals experienced non-accommodation and over-accommodation strategies, grounds-based did not. Findings suggest that grounds-free individuals are more stigmatized by social network members. Implications for merging CPM and CAT are discussed.
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Mawson, Diana L. "The meaning and experience of voluntary childlessness for married couples." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/16879.

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This hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry investigated the meaning and lived experience of voluntary childlessness for married couples. The extant literature on childlessness is dated, and although popular and academic works offer more recent descriptions of this life choice among women, there remains a paucity of contemporary information regarding childfree couples and men. This study thus extends our understanding of how the childless by choice construct meaningful lives. The purpose of the study was to illuminate the underlying meaning of voluntary childlessness among married couples. The study also explored whether meaning-making differed between men and women, and how they created meanings of their voluntary childlessness as married couples. Eight couples volunteered to describe their daily lives without children, in individual spousal and conjoint interviews. The findings of this study emerged from a guided existential reflection founded on four existentials of human experience: lived body, lived relation, lived space, and lived time. Descriptive themes that illuminated the daily lives of these childless couples are presented within each lived existential. Although the participants did not appear to directly value childlessness as a source of meaning in daily living, analysis of their accounts revealed two prominent meaning-themes that encompassed the materials contained within the four existentials. The first meta-theme of meaning was freedom, the expression of autonomy and choice in daily living. The second meta-theme complemented that of freedom, that is, the compelling drive to live a responsible life. In effect, the adults in the study described a balance between their commitments to autonomous strivings, and demonstration of accountability and contribution to society outside the parameters of parenthood. Results are discussed as they relate to research and writing on intentional childlessness, and to established psychological theories of adult development. Overall, the findings suggest that the voluntarily childless adults in this study derived meaning from autonomous and generative acts that are similar in purpose to the strivings for mastery, control, and generativity that have been traditionally associated with parents in mid-life.
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Mortimore, Lisa Michelle. "Becoming, being and belonging to the womanhood : a qualitative inquiry with voluntary childfree women." 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/501.

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Dominant discourses of womanhood and femininity equate woman and mother synonymously, implying that motherhood is a woman's destiny. Childfree women need to create identities divergent of these dominant discourses. Traditional and some feminist psychological theories of women's identity development are based on women's biology and their capacity to reproduce, either implicitly or explicitly. Women who choose to be childfree fall outside of these theoretical models and illuminate the necessity to revise or expand our theoretical understanding of women's identity development. In this qualitative inquiry, six voluntary childfree women were interviewed about their experience of being and becoming women. They shared their experiences of self discovery, living authentically, creating identities, and how being childflee impacts their sense of belonging to the womanhood.
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McKay, Heather Jean. "Childlessness in Australian women: by choice?" 2008. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/5739.

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In Australia, as in other industrialised countries, rates of childlessness amongst women are rising. This has been attributed, in part, to a rise in the number of women choosing never to give birth; however, women’s perception of what constitutes choice in remaining childless is under-investigated. The aim of this study was to investigate Australian women’s experience of childlessness at mid age and explore the role of choice in this reproductive outcome. It investigated the determinants of childlessness, considered the consequences of never giving birth, and explored how choice affects childless women’s evaluation of non-motherhood.
A cross-sectional study of the experience of never giving birth was conducted, which comprised two components. The minor component was a secondary analysis of survey data (collected in 1996) from the Women’s Health Australia (WHA) project. WHA is a longitudinal study which recruited a nationally representative sample of 14,099 women born between 1945 and 1952. These women are amongst the first to have lived all their reproductive lives since the introduction of the oral contraceptive. This study compared demographic characteristics, self-rated health, and life satisfaction between 1,069 mid-aged childless women (exclusive of known adoptive and step-mothers) and 12,643 of their peers who are mothers. It was found that at mid-age, childless women have higher levels of education and are more extensively engaged in the paid workforce than mothers, however, there were no differences in health status between mothers and childless women. Life satisfaction differences between the two groups are complex and mediated by marital status.
The major component of the investigation was a study-specific survey (October 2002) completed by 426 nulliparous women who were all participants in the mid-aged cohort of Women’s Health Australia. This component investigated the determinants of childlessness, the role of choice, and the experience of non-motherhood.
In contrast to existing studies into childlessness, this large quantitative investigation has a sample which comprises a broad selection of nulliparous women irrespective of their marital status, medical history, or level of choice in never giving birth. Using an original classification system, women were categorised into three childless groups which describe three levels of choice in never giving birth: 37.1% of respondents chose childlessness actively (Active Choice), 15.4% chose childlessness given their personal circumstances (Constrained Choice), and 47.5% felt denied the opportunity to give birth (Denied Choice). The predominant reason for childlessness amongst the Active Choice women was not experiencing a strong ‘maternal instinct’, the Denied Choice group mainly cited infertility or the lack of a husband/partner, whilst the Constrained Choice group gave a mixture of voluntary and involuntary explanations.
This study developed a balance sheet approach to assessing both the positive and negative aspects of non-motherhood – the Consequence of Childlessness Balance Sheet (CCBS). It also introduced a technique for measuring ambivalence that was developed within social psychology. In contrast to the public discourse that depicts childlessness as a negative life outcome, participants in this study gave a favourable evaluation of their lives. Even so, more than half (55.6%) of the participants experienced moderate levels of ambivalence. Comparisons between the three childless groups revealed that as choice increased participants were more likely to give a higher rating to the positive aspects of their lives, a lower rating to the negative ones, and experience lower levels of ambivalence. However, Denied Choice women generally did not find childlessness a devastating experience.
Therefore, amongst the mid-aged participants in this study the experience of childlessness was complex and diverse, varying with the level of choice women had in never giving birth. Childlessness was not, however, a burdensome or detrimental life outcome for these women.
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Books on the topic "Voluntary childlessness"

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Rees, Linda J. Childlessness in a child-centered environment: The experiences of voluntarily childless female teachers. St. Catharines, Ont: Faculty of Education, Brock University, 1998.

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Sappleton, Natalie, ed. Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/9781787543614.

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Sappleton, Natalie. Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness: The Joys of Otherhood? Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.

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Sappleton, Natalie. Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness: The Joys of Otherhood? Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.

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Sappleton, Natalie. Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness: The Joys of Otherhood? Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.

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Voicing Voluntary Childlessness: Narratives of Non-Mothering in French. Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter, 2015.

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George, Patricia S. An examination of attitudes of college students toward voluntary childlessness. 1986.

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Schaffel, Diane E. An examination of the effects of voluntary childlessness or voluntary parenthood on the marital relationship of couples in a select population. 1985.

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Book chapters on the topic "Voluntary childlessness"

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Houseknecht, Sharon K. "Voluntary Childlessness." In Handbook of Marriage and the Family, 369–95. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7151-3_14.

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Nazarinia Roy, Roudi, Walter R. Schumm, and Sonya L. Britt. "Voluntary Versus Involuntary Childlessness." In Transition to Parenthood, 49–68. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7768-6_3.

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Li, Amanda Ee Hui, Caroline Plüss, and Chan Kwok-bun. "To Be or Not to Be: Chinese-Singaporean Women Deliberating on Voluntary Childlessness." In International Handbook of Chinese Families, 231–48. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0266-4_13.

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Šumskaitė, Lina, and Margarita Gedvilaitė-Kordušienė. "Childless Women’s Relationships with Children of Others: Narratives from Two Generations in Lithuania." In Close Relations, 171–92. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0792-9_11.

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AbstractA childless woman who lives in a society with pronatalist values can be in a vulnerable position. In 2006, only 1.9% of Lithuanians expressed positive attitudes about childlessness, and 84.6% valued it negatively (Stakuniene and Maslauskaite 2008), signalling the pronatalist tendency of Lithuanian society. However, some studies confirm a shift from traditional to more individualistic familial attitudes (Kanopienė et al. 2015). This chapter investigates the relationship between childless women from two generations in Lithuania and the children of these women’s relatives or friends. The analysis is based on 40 semi-structured qualitative interviews conducted in 2017–2018 with single and coupled women between the ages of 28 and 71 who are voluntarily and involuntarily childless. The women of reproductive age were considering their intentions to have or not have children in the future, and some were going through infertility treatments; women over 50 reflected on permanent childlessness. Most of the interviewed women were involved in taking care of their siblings’ or close relatives’ children during a period in their lives, and in some cases, these women became substitute parents. Only a few women stated that they avoided contact with children in their personal lives.
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Sappleton, Natalie. "Introduction: Childlessness through a Feminist Lens." In Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness, 1–7. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78754-361-420181001.

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Lynch, Ingrid, Tracy Morison, Catriona Ida Macleod, Magdalena Mijas, Ryan du Toit, and Simi Seemanthini. "From Deviant Choice to Feminist Issue: An Historical Analysis of Scholarship on Voluntary Childlessness (1920–2013)." In Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness, 11–47. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78754-361-420181002.

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Fieldsend, Megumi. "What Is It Like Being Involuntarily Childless? Searching for Ways of Understanding from a Psychological Perspective." In Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness, 49–70. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78754-361-420181003.

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Gotlib, Anna. "Wanting to Want: Constructing the Ambivalent Childless Self." In Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness, 71–94. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78754-361-420181004.

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Mullins, Alyssa. "Capital in Pronatalist Fields: Exploring the Influence of Economic, Social, Cultural and Symbolic Capital on Childbearing Habitus." In Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness, 97–124. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78754-361-420181005.

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Mullins, Alyssa. "‘Join the Club’ or ‘Don’t Have Kids’? Exploring Contradictory Experiences, Pressures and Encouragement to Have Children in Pronatalist Social Fields." In Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness, 147–70. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78754-361-420181006.

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Conference papers on the topic "Voluntary childlessness"

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Kuchmaeva, Oksana. "MODELING OF VOLUNTARY CHILDLESSNESS IN MODERN RUSSIA." In 5th SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on SOCIAL SCIENCES and ARTS SGEM2018. STEF92 Technology, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2018/4.1/s18.046.

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