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Cristina Archetti started researching childlessness after being diagnosed with "unexplained infertility". She soon discovered that, although involuntary childlessness affects an increasing number of women and men across the world, this topic is shrouded taboo and shame. This bookis both a first-person reflection about the existential questions posed by involuntary childlessness and a readable account of the way the silence surrounding this topic is socially and politically constructed. Revealing the invisible mechanisms that, from the microscopic details of everyday life to policy, make up the structure of silence around childlessness, Archetti demonstrates what it means not to have children in a society that is organized around families. Through a prose that mixes analysis, excerpts of interviews, media fragments, and evocative writing, she develops a new language of feeling-in-the-body fit for the twenty-first century and exposes the devastating effects infertility has on relationships, identity, health and well-being, in societies that fetishize parenthood. Childlessness in the Age of Communication draws upon a range of disciplines and fields including sociology, health, gender and sexuality studies, communication, politics and anthropology. It is a book for all those interested in childlessness and innovative qualitative research methodologies.

Childlessness --- Social aspects. --- Psychological aspects. --- Family size

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'Population Dynamics' fills the gap between the classical supply-side theory of Malthus and the modern demand-side theory of economic demography. Specifically, it investigates the dynamic macroeconomic implications of various static microeconomic-family economic decisions. It is within this framework that Professor Chu studies the income distribution, the attitude composition, the job structure, and the savings (including pensions) of the population.

Family demography. --- Family size --- Population --- Size of families --- Family planning --- Demography --- Families --- Economic aspects. --- Research --- Households

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Adding to the burgeoning study of medicine and science in Latin America, this important book offers a comprehensive historical perspective on the highly contentious issues of sexual and reproductive health in an important Andean nation. Raul Necochea Lopez approaches family planning as a historical phenomenon layered with medical, social, economic, and moral implications. At stake in this complex mix were new notions of individual autonomy, the future of gender relations, and national prosperity.The implementation of Peru's first family planning programs led to a rapid professionalization of f

Family planning --- Parenthood, Planned --- Planned parenthood --- Planning --- Birth intervals --- Family size --- History

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Demography and Degeneration: Eugenics and the Declining Birthrate in Twentieth-Century Britain

Family size --- Eugenics --- Size of families --- Family planning --- Homiculture --- Race improvement --- Euthenics --- Heredity --- Involuntary sterilization --- History --- Family Characteristics --- Public Policy --- -Family size --- -Size of families --- Affirmative Action --- Migration Policy --- Population Policy --- Social Protection --- Social Policy --- Action, Affirmative --- Migration Policies --- Policies, Migration --- Policies, Population --- Policies, Public --- Policies, Social --- Policy, Migration --- Policy, Population --- Policy, Public --- Policy, Social --- Population Policies --- Protection, Social --- Public Policies --- Social Policies --- Policy Making --- Social Control, Formal --- Couples --- Family Demography --- Family Life Surveys --- Family Size, Average --- Family Size, Completed --- Family Size, Desired --- Family Size, Expected --- Family Size, Ideal --- Family and Household --- Generations --- Head of Household --- Households --- Matriarchy --- One-Person Household --- Patriarchy --- Family Size --- Average Family Size --- Average Family Sizes --- Characteristic, Family --- Characteristics, Family --- Completed Family Size --- Completed Family Sizes --- Demographies, Family --- Demography, Family --- Desired Family Size --- Desired Family Sizes --- Expected Family Size --- Expected Family Sizes --- Family Characteristic --- Family Demographies --- Family Life Survey --- Family Sizes --- Family Sizes, Average --- Family Sizes, Completed --- Family Sizes, Desired --- Family Sizes, Expected --- Family Sizes, Ideal --- Household --- Household Head --- Household Heads --- Household and Family --- Household, One-Person --- Households, One-Person --- Ideal Family Size --- Ideal Family Sizes --- Life Survey, Family --- Life Surveys, Family --- Matriarchies --- One Person Household --- One-Person Households --- Patriarchies --- Survey, Family Life --- Surveys, Family Life --- history --- -History --- -United Kingdom. --- Great Britain --- Isle of Man --- -history

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Examines the causes of childlessness, the availability of choices for couples and at a time of rapidly developing treatments for infertility and new legislative controls, looks at the experiences and views of childless couples.

Childlessness --- Infertility --- Involuntary childlessness --- Sterility --- Sterility in humans --- Generative organs --- Fertility, Human --- Sterilization (Birth control) --- Family size --- Psychological aspects --- Diseases