Fertile Debates: A Comparative Account of Low Fertility in the British and Greek National Press

Georgiadis, Konstantinos

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“…However, the 'suburban fertility hypothesis'-and especially the intrinsic linkage with urban dynamics and economic downturns along a given metropolitan gradient (Bongaarts 2009)-requires additional (empirical) work for specific contexts, particularly for Mediterranean Europe (Caldwell 2006). Our study provides a comparative background to regional demography (Coppola and Di Cesare 2008;Frejka and Sobotka 2008;Georgiadis 2011;Lee and Painter 2013), by studying the long-term shift in the dominant spatial fertility pattern (i.e., from 'rural' to 'urban' and 'suburban' regimes) at the regional scale in metropolitan Athens, basically corresponding with the administrative region of Attica in Central Greece (Figure 1).…”

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Economic Downturns, Urban Growth and Suburban Fertility in a Mediterranean Context

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Despite the wealth of micro–macro data on short-term demographic dynamics, the impact of metropolitan growth and economic downturns on local fertility is still under-investigated in advanced economies. Recent studies in low-fertility contexts have assumed suburban birth rates as being systematically higher than urban and rural rates. This assumption (hereafter, known as the ‘suburban fertility hypothesis’) was grounded on stylized facts and spatial regularities that imply a significant role of both macro (contextual) and micro (behavioral) factors positively influencing fertility in suburban locations. To verify such a hypothesis from a macro (contextual) perspective, the present study compares the general fertility rate of urban, suburban, and rural settlements of the Athens’ metropolitan region (Greece) at various observation years between 1860 and 2020. Long-term Athens’ growth represented a sort of ‘quasi-experiment’ for Mediterranean Europe, linking sequential urban stages and distinctive waves of economic expansion and recession. Using multivariate exploratory analysis and global/local econometric models, a dominant ‘rural’ fertility regime was recorded for 1860 and 1884. A characteristic ‘urban’ fertility regime was, instead, found over a relatively long, intermediate period between 1956 and 1990. Higher fertility in suburban settlements (10 km away from downtown Athens, on average) was, finally, observed since 2000. Considering a sufficiently long-time interval, the existence of multiple fertility regimes along the distance gradient has demonstrated how fertility dynamics are intrinsically bonded with metropolitan growth, economic downturns, and social transformations in Mediterranean Europe.

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“…In Greece, the media are harmonized with the culturally prevalent and already discussed ideologies concerning the nation, gender, motherhood, and personhood, and the newspapers until recently, but also the other media channels over the last few decades, simply mirror reality and legitimize dominant discourses about how persons, especially women, ought to manage their fertility, exalting motherhood and implying disgrace for anything other than that [152].…”

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Childlessness: Concept Analysis

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Jarašiūnaitė‐Fedosejeva

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The purpose of this concept analysis is to explore childlessness and provide understanding to professionals involved in the field of infertility. Walker and Avant’s method was used to identify descriptions, antecedents, consequences, and empirical referents of the concept. A model with related and contrary cases was developed. The analysis was based on the definition of the term in major dictionaries in the Greek, Lithuanian, Finnish, Maltese, and Turkish languages, while further literature searches utilized the Web of Science, PubMed, PsychInfo, Medline, Google Scholar, and National Thesis Databases. The literature search was limited to papers/books published in the authors’ national languages and English. As a result, childlessness is defined as the absence of children in the life of an individual, and this can be voluntary or involuntary. However, the deeper analysis of the concept may be preceded and amplified through cultural, psychological, biological, philosophical, theological, sociological, anthropological, and linguistic aspects throughout history. These elements presented challenges for childless individuals, ultimately influencing their choices to resort to alternative ways of becoming parents, such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), surrogacy, adoption, or other forms of childbearing. Historically, childlessness has been viewed with negative connotations due to its potential impact on the survival of the human species. This negativity can be directed even to individuals who may decide to opt to voluntarily remain childfree. The long-term impact of the experience, both on an individual and collective level, continues to cause pain to those who are involuntarily childless. In conclusion, health professionals and other stakeholders who have a deep understanding of childlessness, including the antecedents and attributes, can minimize the potential negative consequences of those factors contributing to childlessness, whether voluntary or involuntary. In fact, they can capitalize on a powerful impact of change adaptation by providing support to those in their practice to recover the lost homeostasis.

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“…Entre los numerosos trabajos que adoptan esta perspectiva, la inmigración y la imagen de las personas inmigrantes ha sido el tema de estudio más común en España (Casero-Ripollés, 2005;Creighton, 2013;Fajardo y Soriano, 2016;Gómez-Quintero et al, 2021) y, con menos frecuencia, en otros países europeos (Torres et al, 2014, para Suecia y Finlandia). En cambio, en el resto del contexto europeo se han analizado con más detalle cuestiones como la fecundidad y la maternidad (Stark y Kohler, 2002), con estudios en Reino Unido (Budds et al, 2013;Giles et al, 2009), Suiza (Valarino y Bernardi, 2010) y Grecia (Georgiadis, 2011) y el envejecimiento (Iversen y Wilinska, 2020), destacando los estudios en Irlanda (Fealy et al, 2009; y Suecia (Lundgren y Ljuslinder, 2011a, 2011b.…”

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Los discursos demográficos como herramienta político-mediática: El caso de la prensa española

2022

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En este artículo proponemos el estudio de la información y opinión sobre demografía a partir de un análisis de contenido cualitativo basado en la codificación conceptual y categorización relacional de una muestra de artículos del ABC, El Mundo, El País y eldiario.es publicados en formato digital entre enero de 2017 y junio de 2021. Los resultados arrojan diferencias entre los medios conservadores y progresista en la línea editorial del medio, el tipo de expertos/as consultados/as, el discurso demográfico que utilizan y la intencionalidad política de la noticia. Asimismo, se aprecia otras diferencias notables respecto al uso de datos inadecuados o éticamente cuestionables.

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Fertile Debates: A Comparative Account of Low Fertility in the British and Greek National Press

Cited by 9 publications

References 42 publications

Economic Downturns, Urban Growth and Suburban Fertility in a Mediterranean Context

Economic Downturns, Urban Growth and Suburban Fertility in a Mediterranean Context

Childlessness: Concept Analysis

Los discursos demográficos como herramienta político-mediática: El caso de la prensa española

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