Add to ORKGThis paper examines the question of why women want children from several disciplinary viewpoints including psychoanalysis; role learning; and economic, political, and religious aspects. Basically, however, childbearing motivations can be divided into four categories: altruistic, fatalistic, narcissistic, and instrumental. Children can fulfill a variety of needs which appear to shift through time and vary among individuals. Particular attention is given to those needs which children seem to meet in our highly technological, impersonal western society, i.e. needs for identity, intimacy, and self-actualization. A crucial concern is how to satisfy these needs without further aggravating the population crisis and without denying people the right...
likely to prefer to remain childless than less intelligent individuals. Analyses of the why why some...
Much of the literature on childbearing motivations has recognised conformity to fertility norms, esp...
In the United States, like most other parts of the world, there is a commonly held belief that all c...
textabstractABSTRACT It is commonly assumed that we have an innate need for children, in particular,...
The aim of this study was to increase available knowledge about women's and men’s desire for pregnan...
“We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the c...
The public debate on population policy is still going on, only the topics have changed during the la...
In working paper #1, we explore the evolutionary psychological and socio-anthropological aspects of ...
The purpose of this article is to review previous research studies about women’s birth behavior and ...
The value of family understood as a way of everyday life and a social institution is highly estimate...
The goal of having genetically related offspring is often described as a ‘fundamental human need’ or...
Children have become increasingly 'precious' at both societal and household level. Meanwhile, their ...
Although motherhood has long been a normative female experience, individual decisions regarding bear...
Children have become increasingly 'precious' at both societal and household level. Meanwhile, their ...
Abstract Overpopulation is a serious threat to future persons‘ quality of life. One that I believe c...
likely to prefer to remain childless than less intelligent individuals. Analyses of the why why some...
Much of the literature on childbearing motivations has recognised conformity to fertility norms, esp...
In the United States, like most other parts of the world, there is a commonly held belief that all c...
textabstractABSTRACT It is commonly assumed that we have an innate need for children, in particular,...
The aim of this study was to increase available knowledge about women's and men’s desire for pregnan...
“We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the c...
The public debate on population policy is still going on, only the topics have changed during the la...
In working paper #1, we explore the evolutionary psychological and socio-anthropological aspects of ...
The purpose of this article is to review previous research studies about women’s birth behavior and ...
The value of family understood as a way of everyday life and a social institution is highly estimate...
The goal of having genetically related offspring is often described as a ‘fundamental human need’ or...
Children have become increasingly 'precious' at both societal and household level. Meanwhile, their ...
Although motherhood has long been a normative female experience, individual decisions regarding bear...
Children have become increasingly 'precious' at both societal and household level. Meanwhile, their ...
Abstract Overpopulation is a serious threat to future persons‘ quality of life. One that I believe c...
likely to prefer to remain childless than less intelligent individuals. Analyses of the why why some...
Much of the literature on childbearing motivations has recognised conformity to fertility norms, esp...
In the United States, like most other parts of the world, there is a commonly held belief that all c...