Family Attitudes and Fertility Timing in Sweden

Holland, Jennifer; Keizer, Renske

doi:10.1007/s10680-014-9333-x

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“…Although our analysis is restricted to Germany, we think that the results also apply to other countries. For example, the finding that the benefits of partnership may be a substitute for the perceived benefits of parenthood is compatible with the result of a Swedish study by Holland and Keizer (2015) that partnership-oriented respondents were less likely to have a first child. However, we cannot rule out that the strength of the effects of the independent variables might depend on countryspecific socio-economic conditions, cultural traditions, and family policy constellations.…”

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confidence: 65%

“…Therefore, the relevance of age norms for both partners in a relationship should also be analysed in detail. Fourth, giving up on having children might also depend on other personal traits (Avison and Furnham 2015) and family attitudes (Holland and Keizer 2015) than those considered here. Fifth, due to data limitations we were only able to include two dyadic variables in our models.…”

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confidence: 91%

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Why Childless Men and Women Give Up on Having Children

Buhr

Huinink

2017

Eur J Population

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In this paper we address the question why childless women and men aged 35 years and older, who originally were considering having children, voluntarily gave up on having children. We hypothesise that this adjustment could be attributed to five mechanisms: adaptation to a lifestyle without children; resignation because of severe hindrances to having children; approaching the end of the fecund period; perceiving a low degree of social influence from significant others to have children; and a low degree of personal persistence in pursuing life goals. We analyse data from the first six waves of the German Family Panel (Pairfam) and employ multinomial logistic regression models. As the dependent variable we distinguished four types of sequences over the observation period: ''permanently considering having children'', ''given up on having children'', ''switching'', and ''permanently not considering having children''. Being female, being not employed, and having low scores on the emotional autonomy scale increased the likelihood of giving up on having children, while anticipating positive consequences of parenthood and perceiving influence from parents to have a child decreased it. The results show that all mechanisms addressed by the hypotheses were at work to a certain extent. In particular, the integration of personality factors and the importance of other life goals beyond parenthood provided valuable insights into the reasons for giving up on having children. Future research in this field should focus more than was possible in our study on societal age norms and the role of partners in giving up on having children.

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Why Childless Men and Women Give Up on Having Children

Buhr

Huinink

2017

Eur J Population

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“…One key challenge in studying the relationship between attitudes and life experience is to distinguish the effect of parenthood on gender attitudes from selectivity associated with both. Egalitarian women, for instance, are less likely to have a child and more likely to participate in the labor market (Hakim 2000; Holland and Keizer 2015). Thus, time-constant characteristics such as personality, lifestyle preferences, and overall attitude toward the gendered division of labor may confound the observed relationship between women’s fertility and/or employment behaviors and attitudes.…”

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Motherhood, Employment, and the Dynamics of Women’s Gender Attitudes

Zhou

2017

Gender & Society

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This article presents an investigation of the dynamics of women's gender attitudes from the perspective of women's conflicting employment and childrearing responsibilities. It examines the independent and joint effects of motherhood and employment on gender attitudes using combined data from the British Household Panel Survey and the Understanding Society panel study. The results of fixed effects models show no evidence supporting a direct influence of either motherhood or employment on women's attitudes toward a traditional division of labor. However, changes in attitudes are observed when motherhood and employment statuses are considered jointly. Specifically, women are less traditional after the transition to motherhood than before only if motherhood is combined with full-time employment. By contrast, women are more traditional after the transition to motherhood than before only if motherhood coincides with their withdrawal from the labor force. These associations remain robust after considering feedback from earlier attitudes. All the findings suggest that the emergence and realization of incompatibility between women's employment and childrearing responsibilities reshape women's gender attitudes during the transition to motherhood.

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“…In the Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland), gender equality policies regulates both the labour market and domestic chores, and the family policy instruments emphasise balance between work and parental duties (Oláh, Bernhardt, 2008;Holland, Keizer, 2015;Thévenon, 2011).…”

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The types of fertility patterns in Europe

Majdzińska

2021

JGPS

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The aim of this paper is to present the types of fertility patterns that characterise European countries and their NUTS-1 units in the early 21st c. and in the near future. The types of fertility patterns were defined by ordering six five-year age groups of women aged from 15 to 44 years, according to the groups’ fertility rates (from the highest to the lowest). The analysis resulted in the creation of 14 different types of fertility patterns. Countries located in the same European region tend to have the same or similar type of fertility pattern. In most European countries, the postponement transition can be observed, and it will probably continue in the future. Differences between the fertility rates of the age groups were assessed within countries and between countries with the same type of fertility pattern by calculating the so-called fertility rate ratios. The paper also provides an overview of the main theories and concepts explaining the course of family formation processes in Europe and indicates factors that shape fertility patterns in European countries today.

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Family Attitudes and Fertility Timing in Sweden

Cited by 10 publications

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Why Childless Men and Women Give Up on Having Children

Why Childless Men and Women Give Up on Having Children

Motherhood, Employment, and the Dynamics of Women’s Gender Attitudes

The types of fertility patterns in Europe

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