Decisions to Have Children in Late 20th and Early 21st Century Australia A Qualitative Analysis /

• Main Author: Carmichael, Gordon. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Population Studies,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Family.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6079-0

This book explores the process of decision-making around having children in a sample of 115 men, women and couples for whom family formation was a recent past, current or imminent future issue. The discussion is initially focused on the extent to which parenthood was contemplated in late adolescence...

Table of Contents:

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Explicit and Implicit Decision-making
• ContextDelayed Childbearing
• The Qualitative Data.-� Contemplating Families
• Early thought about having children
• Discussion of children during courtship
• Determining Family Size
• How meaningful are early�expected family sizes?.-The process
• The First Child.-The Obligatory Second Child
• The Discretionary Third Child
• Fourth ChildrenNegative Reactions, Practical Issues
• Discussion
• Acknowledgements
• References .