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Author: Verweij, Renske M.
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Verweij, Renske M. Keizer, Renske |
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Remaining Childless: Examining the Different Patterns of Expectations that Lead to a Childless Life for Men SN Social Sciences (10 March 2023): DOI: 10.1007/s43545-023-00642-6. Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43545-023-00642-6 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Expectations/Intentions; Fertility; Labor Force Participation; Marital Status Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Early life fertility expectations fail to explain why a substantial proportion of men remain childless. To understand which roads lead to childlessness, it is important to investigate the patterning of fertility expectations across men's life courses. Therefore, the current study focuses on pathways into childlessness for men, by differentiating groups based on whether, and if so when, changes in fertility expectations occurred. In addition, we examine how these patterns of fertility expectations were linked to men's labour force participation (LFP) and marital relationships. We use data from the American National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and applied sequence, clustering, and multinomial logistic regression methods to analyze stability and change in childless men's life course between the ages of 22 and 47 (N = 679). Based on their patterns of fertility expectations, we identified four groups of childless men. (1) Early switchers (29%), (2) mid-thirty switchers (29%), (3) late or never switchers (25%), and men with unstable expectations (18%). Early switchers often got married early, while late or never switchers were more likely those who got married at a later age. In contrast, interrupted LFP was only weakly related to patterns of fertility expectations. Our longitudinal focus revealed, firstly, that different roads of fertility expectations lead to childlessness for men. Second, changes in men's partnership status often precede changes in their fertility expectations. This study is the first to use a prospective design to investigate childless men's complete reproductive history, revealing that different trajectories of fertility expectations lead to childlessness. |
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Verweij, Renske M. and Renske Keizer. "Remaining Childless: Examining the Different Patterns of Expectations that Lead to a Childless Life for Men." SN Social Sciences (10 March 2023): DOI: 10.1007/s43545-023-00642-6.
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Verweij, Renske M. Stulp, Gert Snieder, Harold Mills, Melinda C. |
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Explaining the Associations of Education and Occupation with Childlessness: The Role of Desires and Expectations to Remain Childless Population Review 60,2 (2021): DOI: 10.1353/prv.2021.0016. Also: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/839240 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Sociological Demography Press Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Expectations/Intentions; Fertility; Labor Force Participation; Occupational Status Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Although there are well-established relationships between women's higher education, labour force participation (LFP), and occupation on the one hand and childlessness on the other hand in the US, the underlying reasons and the role that childlessness desires and expectations play remain unclear. We use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United States (N=4,198 women) and apply both logistic regression models to examine the role of childlessness desires early in life, and multilevel models for repeated measures to examine the role of childlessness expectations throughout the life course. We find that higher educational attainment and LFP are positively associated with childlessness. We do not find, however, that higher educated and working women more often desire or expect to remain childless. In contrast, we find that among women who ultimately remain childless, those women who work fulltime and have higher status occupations have higher expectations to have children throughout their life course. These results suggest that education and occupation produce constraints, resulting in the postponement of childbearing which hinders women in realizing their desires and expectations. Since many working women remain childless despite the desire and expectation to become a mother, our findings stress the importance of work-life reconciliation. It furthermore highlights the importance of increasing public awareness regarding the decrease in fecundity with age. |
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Bibliography Citation
Verweij, Renske M., Gert Stulp, Harold Snieder and Melinda C. Mills. "Explaining the Associations of Education and Occupation with Childlessness: The Role of Desires and Expectations to Remain Childless." Population Review 60,2 (2021): DOI: 10.1353/prv.2021.0016.
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