The End of Children? Changing Trends in Childbearing and Childhood

Autor/inn/en	Lauster, Nathanael; Allan, Graham
Titel	The End of Children? Changing Trends in Childbearing and Childhood
Quelle	(2011), (212 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-7748-2192-6
Schlagwörter	Investigations; Demography; Anthropology; Prediction; Children; Foreign Countries; Performance Factors; Time Perspective; Cultural Context; Cultural Influences; Social Class; Socioeconomic Influences; Income; Age Differences; Birth Rate; Family Size; Family Characteristics; Family Income; Population Distribution; Population Growth; Population Trends; Trend Analysis; Predictor Variables; Social Change; Social Values; Childhood Needs; Pathology; Disabilities; Developmental Disabilities; Child Health; Early Childhood Education; Child Rearing; Textbook Content; Family Planning; Canada; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Untersuchung; Demografie; Anthropologie; Vorhersage; Child; Kind; Kinder; Ausland; Leistungsindikator; Zeitbezug; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Einkommen; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Familiengröße; Familieneinkommen; Demographical distribution; Bevölkerungsverteilung; Population increase; Bevölkerungswachstum; Bevölkerungsprognose; Trendanalyse; Prädiktor; Sozialer Wandel; Sozialer Wert; Childhood; needs; Kindheit; Bedürfnis; Pathologie; Handicap; Behinderung; Entwicklungsstörung; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Kindererziehung; Lehrbuchtext; Familienplanung; Kanada; USA
Abstract	Fertility rates have fallen dramatically around the world. In some countries, there are no longer enough children being born to replace adult populations. The disappearance of children is a matter of concern matched only by fears that childhood is becoming too structured or not structured enough, too short or too long, or just simply too different from the idealized childhoods of the past. "The End of Children?" brings together scholars who draw on their expertise in multiple disciplines--sociology, demography, history, anthropology, family studies, social work, and education--to provide a more balanced, less alarmist perspective on the meanings and implications of these issues. Contrary to predictions of the end of children and the end of childhood, their investigations of developments in Canada and the United States, and to a lesser extent elsewhere in the world, show that fertility rates and ideas about children and childhood are not uniform but rather vary around the globe based on factors such as time, culture, class, income, and age. These timely explorations of how changing ideas about the child are reshaping when and why people have children and how they choose to raise them opens a new dialogue on the production and place of children in modern society. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10