Overview
Contains an international team of experts trying to solve the old dilemma of how to make work and family life compatible
Offers a new interdisciplinary look at shaping work and family life more smoothly
Discusses how to balance careers and family in aging societies
Addresses what is the best age to have the first child
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Table of contents(13 chapters)
Keywords
- Age at first birth
- Compatibility of work and family life
- Delayed fatherhood
- Emancipation
- Female behaviour
- IVF
- Late fertility
- Late parenthood
- Male behaviour
- Maternal and child health
- Medical complications
- Modern contraception
- Motherhood
- Post-career mom
- Postponement
- Reproductive technology
- Sexual differentiation
- Welfare states
- Western societies
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Demographic Institute (NIDI), Netherlands Interdisciplinary, s-Gravenhage, Netherlands
Gijs Beets
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Utrecht School of Economics, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Joop Schippers
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Utrecht, Netherlands
Egbert R. te Velde
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Future of Motherhood in Western Societies
Book Subtitle: Late Fertility and its Consequences
Editors: Gijs Beets, Joop Schippers, Egbert R. te Velde
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8969-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8968-7Published: 15 December 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9024-7Published: 28 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8969-4Published: 06 December 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 222
Topics: Demography, Sociology, general