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Ageing Without Children
Author | : Philip Kreager,Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2005-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781789205794 |
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Rapid fertility declines and improved longevity are now shifting the overall balance of population towards older ages in many parts of the world. Within this growing population of older people there are many groups with particular needs about which relatively little is known. This collection focuses on one such sub-population, the elderly without children. Few would deny that childlessness poses potential human and welfare problems for older people without them. What is less well known is that comparative anthropological and historical demographic research indicates that childlessness is a recurring social phenomenon that has affected 1 in 5 older women in many cultures and historical periods. High levels of childlessness arise not solely or primarily from biological factors like primary sterility, but from a combination of actors. Many, like non-marriage, delayed childbearing , and pathological sterility, reflect the interaction of social and biological influences. Also of major importance are factors that remove the support of children from elders' lives: migration, mortality, divorce, remarriage, family enmity, social mobility, and the pressing demands of family and career on younger generations. The papers collected in this volume employ a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods to define and characterize the experience of ageing without children.
Life Without Children
Author | : Roddy Doyle |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2022-02-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780593300572 |
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“[Doyle] imparts a sense of poignancy and glimpses of happiness, of grief and loss and small moments of connection . . . you’re left feeling close to dazzled.” —Daphne Merkin, New York Times Book Review A brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories, from the Booker Prize–winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten beautifully moving short stories written mostly over the last year, Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged son, barred from his mother’s funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret. Told with Doyle’s signature warmth, wit, and extraordinary eye for the richness that underpins the quiet of our lives, Life Without Children cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness, and the shifting of history underneath our feet.
Beyond Motherhood
Author | : Jeanne Safer |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1996-02 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780671793449 |
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Women from all over the country share their experiences and offer insights into what it is like not having children, and describe what factors helped shape their decision to remain childless.
I Can Barely Take Care of Myself
Author | : Jen Kirkman |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2013-04-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781451667004 |
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Jen Kirkman is "childfree by choice." Here's what she'd like to say to everyone who can't stop telling her she'll change her mind.
Without Children
Author | : Peggy O'Donnell Heffington |
Publsiher | : Seal Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2023-04-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781541675568 |
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A historian explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood in this “timely, refreshingly open-hearted study of the choices women make and the cards they’re dealt” (Ada Calhoun, author of Why We Can’t Sleep). In an era of falling births, it’s often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids. But history is full of women without children: some who chose childless lives, others who wanted children but never had them, and still others—the vast majority, then and now—who fell somewhere in between. Modern women considering how and if children fit into their lives are products of their political, ecological, and cultural moment. But history also tells them that they are not alone. Drawing on deep research and her own experience as a woman without children, historian Peggy O’Donnell Heffington shows that many of the reasons women are not having children today are ones they share with women in the past: a lack of support, their jobs or finances, environmental concerns, infertility, and the desire to live different kinds of lives. Understanding this history—how normal it has always been to not have children, and how hard society has worked to make it seem abnormal—is key, she writes, to rebuilding kinship between mothers and non-mothers, and to building a better world for us all.
Divorced Without Children
Author | : Debra D. Castaldo |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2011-02-14 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781135914363 |
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Women divorced at midlife without children are a group that is “out of sync” in a society that is still primarily a “married, mothering” world. This book explores the clinical issues, dilemmas, and challenges for women in this role. The book presents a solution focused, relational/constructionist clinical approach and therapeutic techniques for working with these women. Application of clinical techniques and case examples are presented, and new concepts for women’s recovery and development such as role innovation, meaning modification, autonomous competence, and an expanded family life cycle are also suggested in the book.
Finding Happiness Without Children
Author | : Janeah Rose |
Publsiher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2010-03 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9781450210225 |
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Do you regret not having children? Are you childless by choice? Are you fearful about your future without the love of children? In Finding Happiness without Children, author Janeah Rose helps childless women understand the feelings and emotions they may be experiencing. This collection of intimate stories-from both the author and other childless women- offers encouragement and compassion and demonstrates the many unique ways these women found purpose, fulfillment, inner peace, and happiness without children. Janeah calls upon her own hardships and personal experiences to prove how trials can be reconfigured to become lessons. Finding Happiness without Children offers a powerful and enlightening story of a childless woman's hardships and struggles which ironically unmasked and strengthened her gift of intuition. The life experiences taught her how to heal, grow spiritually, love, forgive, trust, and, most importantly, how to love herself, trust the universe and believe in the Creator. Both emotional and inspirational, Finding Happiness without Children makes a positive contribution to childless women everywhere who face the struggles and stigma of infertility.
Without Child
Author | : Laurie Lisle |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 0415924936 |
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In a society in which most women grow up thinking they will become mothers-and in which many women go to great lengths to make that desire a reality -- not having a child is often met with incredulity and scorn. But as the author of this thoughtful and meticulously researched examination of childlessness points out, childless women are part of an ancient and respectable cultural tradition that includes biblical matriarchs, celibate saints, and nineteenth-century social reformers. Revealing the story of her own decision not to have children, Laurie Lisle draws from history, literature, religion and sociology to challenge the stigma attached to the condition of childlessness-and to offer encouragement and support to those women who have made the difficult decision themselves. Beginning with the difficult inner journey a woman faces before finally deciding or realizing she will not bear children,Without Childexplores the myth of the childless woman's rejection of the maternal instinct. It alsoexplores the childless woman's relationship to mothers and mothering, to her femininity, to men, to achievement, to her body, and to old age. Wide-ranging yet intimate, philosophical, yet clear-sighted, this important book does what no other has done before-presents childlessness in a multifaceted and positive light.