Fertility, Living Arrangements, Care and Mobility Understanding Population Trends and Processes - Volume 1 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kneale, Dylan. (Editor), Coast, Ernestina. (Editor), Stillwell, John. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Understanding Population Trends and Processes ; 1
• Subjects: Early childhood education.; Population.; Social sciences.; Demography.; Social Sciences, general.; Population Economics.; Childhood Education.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9682-2

Many parts of the world are experiencing rapid demographic restructuring, resulting in an ageing population with increasingly significant work and care pressures on cohorts less able or willing to provide support. This book examines some of the important trends that have underpinned reductions in fe...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword: Ian Diamond
• Preface
• 1 Fertility, living arrangements, care and mobility: Dylan Kneale, Ernestina Coast, John Stillwell
• 2 Delayed childbearing and childlessness: Roona Simpson
• 3 Womens education and childbearing: a growing divide: Sarah Smith, Anita Ratcliffe
• 4 The timing of motherhood, mothers employment and child outcomes: Kirstine Hansen, Heather Joshi, Denise Hawkes
• 5 Early parenthood: definition and prediction in two British cohorts: Dylan Kneale
• 6. Currently cohabiting: relationship attitudes, expectations and outcomes: Ernestina Coast
• 7. Living arrangements, health and well-being: Harriet Young, Emily Grundy
• 8 Stepparenting and mental health: Paul Boyle, Peteke Feijten, Zhiqiang Feng, Vernon Gayle, Elspeth Graham
• 9 Grandparents and the care of their grandchildren: Alison Smith Koslowski
• 10. Internal Migration and inter-households relationships: Oliver Duke-Williams
• 11. Exploring dimensions of school change during primary education: Joan Wilson
• Subject Index.