The Transition to Motherhood in Japan:a comparison with the Netherlands

This study examines low fertility by focusing on the age at which Japanese women give birth for the first time and comparing this with the timing of first birth for Dutch women. It combines the life-history and life-story approaches, and makes use of a wide variety of source materials. The life-history approach shows that Japanese women increasingly reject the traditional sequence of marriage and motherhood, while the experience of Dutch women exhibits a broadening range of different partnership and living arrangement pathways to first birth. The results of the application of the life-story ap... Mehr ...