Fatherhood in a Changing Society: Shifts in Male Fertility Patterns

Kyzlinková, Renáta; Šťastná, Anna

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“…Although statistics on male childlessness are lacking, an analysis of quantitative data from the Czech Generations and Gender Survey from 2008 reveals that the age at which men make the transition to parenthood is rising (Kyzlinková and Šťastná, 2018). While 75% of men in the 1945–1949 birth cohort were parents by the age of 32.4 years, in the 1965–1971 cohort, the figure was 43.4 years.…”

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Men’s Explanations for Being Childless; a dynamic perspective

Maříková

2021

Sociological Research Online

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Research on childlessness in contemporary society still focuses mainly on women. This article conversely examines childlessness among men in Czechia – a European post-socialist country in which becoming a parent was a strong social norm before 1989. This article asks how men’s explanations for being childless or childfree change over time and what this says about changing norms attached to parenthood in different historical and social contexts. It draws on an analysis of 24 problem-centred interviews conducted in two rounds about a decade apart on the same sample of child-less or free men. This approach is not usually applied in research on this subject. In the first interviews, the men’s narratives mainly reveal their different views on the impact the post-1989 social transformation had on their lives in relation to their perceived resources and life chances. The follow-up interviews show how the men’s views on their lives change with age, the different emphasis they place on free choice versus the effect of external factors over time, and the narrow line that they construct between ‘involuntary’ and ‘voluntary’ childlessness. The narratives of child-less or free men unveil that the norm of becoming a parent is growing weaker in Czech society, but age norms and the norms regarding pathways to parenthood are still strong. The article seeks to understand how Czech men construct their childlessness over time, thus contributing to the discussion of childlessness among men and filling the gap in knowledge on men’s childlessness in CEE.

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“…Philipov et al, 2006; Sobotka, 2011). Nevertheless, unlike childless women, childless men remain, with some exceptions, under-researched (for Czechia, see Chromková Manea and Rabušic, 2013; Kyzlinková and Šťastná, 2018).…”

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Men’s Explanations for Being Childless; a dynamic perspective

Maříková

2021

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“…Vliv vzdělání na narození prvního dítěte se napříč generacemi českých muţů zdá se proměňuje, a to jak v reprodukčním chování, tak v rovině plánů a aspirací. Dílčí analýzy ukazují, ţe optikou muţe, jakoţto ţivitele rodiny, můţe vyšší vzdělání pozitivně ovlivňovat tranzici k rodičovství, coţ se potvrdilo u českých muţů narozených mezi lety 1945 a 1971 (Kyzlinková -Šťastná 2018). Dosavadní poznatky naznačují, ţe mezi mladými muţi plánují nejčastěji v budoucnu zaloţit rodinu vysokoškoláci, naopak muţi se základním vzděláním nejčastěji plánují zůstat bezdětní (Kyzlinková -Šťastná 2016).…”

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“…Vedle proměnné vzdělání jsou v modelech kontrolovány vybrané charakteristiky, které byly v předešlých analýzách identifikovány jako důleţité prediktory otcovské tranzice (Kyzlinková -Šťastná 2018). S nimi pak proměnná vzdělání vstupuje do interakce, aby pomohla objasnit mechanismy, jakými vzdělání diferencuje jednání jednotlivých skupin.…”

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Vzdělání a přechod k otcovství v České republice: reflexe dvou společenských kontextů

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Kyzlinková²

2019

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Výzkumný ústav práce a sociálních věcí, v. v. i. Education and the Transition to Fatherhood in the Czech Republic: The Reflection of two Societal Contexts. The aim of the study is to identify the transition of men to first birth in the Czech Republic focusing particularly on the impact of the level of education. Two different time periods characterised by differing political and societal orders are subjected to studythe period of state socialism from 1960 to 1989 and the transition and post-transition period from 1990 to 2008. We employ data obtained from the Czech Generations and Gender Survey (2008) and the event history modelling method. The impact of education is studied in terms of the interaction thereof with various other characteristics of the individual. The analysis revealed that reproductive behaviour differs depending on the educational level with respect to differing subgroups as defined by e.g. partnership status or the composition of the family of orientation. The study aims to extend the debate on the influence of education on fertility by introducing the aspect of male reproduction behaviour.

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“…Pokud je téma bezdětnosti mužů u nás vůbec sledováno (např. Možný et al 2008;Hašková 2009;Chromková, Rabušic 2013;Kyzlinková, Šťastná 2018), pak až na výjimky (např. Hašková 2009; Slepičková 2009 a 2014) z perspektivy tzv.…”

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The Male Childlessness the Perspective of Hegemonic Masculinity

Maříková¹

2020

GaV

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The share of childless people in contemporary Czech society (and elsewhere) is increasing. Research in the social sciences has mainly focused on explaining female rather than male childlessness. This article tries to at least partially fi ll in the gap in this research by focusing on male childlessness from the perspective of masculinities and more specifi cally hegemonic masculinity. A thematic analysis of problem-oriented interviews conducted repeatedly with 12 heterosexual men (of different ages and educational backgrounds) focuses on explaining these men's life experience of childlessness and their perception of childlessness in relation to the conditions and circumstances of their lives, and it does this in relation to how they construct their masculinities along the main axes of 'values and norms', 'the perception and meaning of close relationships', 'the meaning of work and leisure activities', and 'individuals' experience of their life situation'. Hegemonic masculinity characteristics are then either reproduced or disrupted according to how these different axes combine. The analysis has shown that, even in the case of childlessness, men more often construct their masculinities in a hegemonic than a non-hegemonic mode. However, hegemonic masculinity is also constructed through what is left 'unspoken' and 'concealed', that is, through what men do not explicitly state in interviews, so attention should also be paid to this issue in research on masculinities.

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Fatherhood in a Changing Society: Shifts in Male Fertility Patterns

Cited by 3 publications

References 67 publications

Men’s Explanations for Being Childless; a dynamic perspective

Men’s Explanations for Being Childless; a dynamic perspective

Vzdělání a přechod k otcovství v České republice: reflexe dvou společenských kontextů

The Male Childlessness the Perspective of Hegemonic Masculinity

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