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Social Science Gender Studies

The End of Children?

Changing Trends in Childbearing and Childhood

edited by Nathanael Lauster & Graham Allan

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2011
Category
Gender Studies, General, Social Work
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774821926
    Publish Date
    Dec 2011
    List Price
    $95.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774821933
    Publish Date
    Jul 2012
    List Price
    $32.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774821940
    Publish Date
    Dec 2011
    List Price
    $29.95

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Concerns about declining fertility rates are matched only by fears that childhood is being destroyed by modern parenting practices. This multidisciplinary volume offers a more balanced, less alarmist perspective on the meanings and implications of these issues. Contrary to predictions about the end of children and the end of childhood, these investigations of developments in Canada and the United States, and 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.

About the authors

Contributor Notes

Nathanael Lauster is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia. Graham Allan is professor emeritus of sociology at Keele University in the United Kingdom.

 

Contributors: Graham Allan, Anita Ilta Garey, Mona Gleason, Edward Kruk, Nathanael Lauster, Megan Lemmon, Todd F. Martin, Adena B.K. Miller, Jay Teachman, Nicholas W. Townsend, Rebecca L. Upton, James M. White, Mira Whyman, and Jing Zhao.