Decline and prosper! : changing global birth rates and the advantages of fewer children / Vegard Skirbekk.
Skirbekk, Vegard, author.
2022
HB887
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Title Decline and prosper! : changing global birth rates and the advantages of fewer children / Vegard Skirbekk.
Author Skirbekk, Vegard, author.
ISBN 9783030916114 (electronic bk.)
3030916111 (electronic bk.)
9783030916107 (print)
3030916103
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91611-4
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxxiii, 396 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-91611-4 doi
Call Number HB887
Dewey Decimal Classification 304.6/2
Summary Globally, women are having half as many children as they had just fifty years ago. Why have birth rates fallen, and how will low fertility affect our shared future? In Decline and Prosper!, demographic expert Vegard Skirbekk offers readers an accessible, comprehensive and evidence-based overview of human reproduction. Readers learn about the evolution of childbearing across different populations and how fertility is related to (changes in) our reproductive capacity, contraception, education, religion, partnering, policies, economics, assisted reproduction, and catastrophes. Readers will explore the future of family size and its impact on human welfare, women's empowerment and the environment. Skirbekk argues that low fertility is on the whole a good thing, while recognizing the challenges of population aging and "coincidental" childlessness. A balanced, integrative examination of one of the most important issues of our time, Decline and Prosper! drives home the fact that we must ultimately adapt to a world with fewer children. The book will be invaluable to anyone who is interested in the far-reaching effects of global fertility, including researchers and students of demography, social statistics, medical sociologists, family and childhood studies, human geographers, sociology of culture, social and public policy.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 7, 2022).
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Introduction
Measuring Fertility
How Many Children Can Humans Have Biologically?
Fertility from the Dawn of Humanity through the 19th Century
The Demographic Transition: Fewer Deaths and Fewer Births, Eventually.-Contemporary Global Fertility.The New Have-Nots: Childlessness in the 21st Century
More Education, Fewer Children
An Era of Choice: Childbearing Has Become More Planned
Fertility Preferences: How Many Children Do People Want?
Delaying Parenthood, For Better and For Worse
Finding a Mate: Contemporary Partnership and Conception
Money Matters: The Economics of Fertility
Fertility in the Aftermath of Disaster
New Times, Old Beliefs: Religion and Contemporary Fertility
Contemporary Fertility from an Evolutionary Perspective: Are the Fittest Still Surviving?
How Low Will It Go? Projecting Future Fertility
Fertility, Population Growth and Population Composition
Fertility Policies: Past, Present, and Future Directions
Low
But Not Too Low
Fertility is a Good Thing.

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