Pioneers of the Modern Lifestyle?: Childless Couples in the Early-Twentieth-Century Netherlands
In many Western countries, including the Netherlands, couples marrying in the interwar period experienced unprecedentedly high levels of childlessness. Only recently do we witness a return to these levels, as part and parcel of the so-called second demographic transition. Looking back on the interwar period, many scholars have attributed the decline of fertility and the increase of childlessness to rampant economic and political instability. However, contemporary social scientists ascribed the phenomenon to individualization, secularization, and the priority newlywed couples gave to a career a... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | TEXT |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2010 |
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Duke University Press
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Schlagwörter: | Articles |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Link(s) : | http://ssh.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/34/1/47 |