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The end of children? : changing trends in childbearing and childhood / edited by Nathanael Lauster and Graham Allan.
- Title
- The end of children? : changing trends in childbearing and childhood / edited by Nathanael Lauster and Graham Allan.
- Publication
- Vancouver : UBC Press, c2012.
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- Description
- xii, 198 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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."--pub. desc.
- Subject
- Birth Rate > trends
- Child
- Child Rearing > trends
- Child development
- Child development > History > 20th century
- Children > History > 20th century
- Children
- Enfance > Histoire > 20e siècle
- Enfance
- Enfants > Développement
- Enfants > Histoire > 20e siècle
- Family
- History, 20th Century
- Human reproduction > History > 20th century
- Human reproduction
- Parents
- Reproduction humaine > Histoire > 20e siècle
- Reproduction humaine
- Reproductive Behavior > history
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Fertility change in North America, 1950-2000 / Mira Whyman, Megan Lemmon, and Jay Teachman -- Changing children and changing cultures : immigration as a source of fertility and the assumptions of assimilation / Nathanael Lauster, Todd F. Martin, and James M. White -- Using infertility, useful fertility : cultural imperatives on the value of children in the United States / Rebecca L. Upton -- The performance of motherhood and fertility decline : a stage props approach / Nathanael Lauster -- Parenthood, immortality, and the end of childhood / Nicholas W. Townsend -- Leaving home : an example of the disappearance of childhood and its end as a predictable set of uniform experiences / Adena B.K. Miller -- The disappearance of parents from children's lives : the cummulative effects of child care, child custody, and child welfare policies in Canada / Edward Kruk -- Navigating the pedagogy of failure : medicine, education, and the disabled child in English Canada, 1900-45 / Mona Gleason -- Pathologizing childhood / Anita Ilta Garey -- From children to child : ending in China / Jing Zhao, Nathanael Lauster, and Graham Allan.
- ISBN
- 9780774821926 (bound)
- 0774821922 (bound)
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library