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Ageing Without Children: European and Asian Perspectives on Elderly Access to Support Networks

Ageing Without Children: European and Asian Perspectives on Elderly Access to Support Networks

Kreager, Philip
Schröder-Butterfill, Elisabeth

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Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P, Book 6

Aging & Elder CareMedical ReferenceAnthropology

ISBN10: 1845450418
ISBN13: 9781845450410
Publisher: Berghahn Books Inc
Published: Mar 1 2005
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Rapid fertility declines and improved longevity are now shifting the overall balance of population towards older ages in many parts of the world. Within this growing population of older people there are many groups with particular needs about which relatively little is known. This collection focuses on one such sub-population, the elderly without children. Few would deny that childlessness poses potential human and welfare problems for older people without them. What is less well known is that comparative anthropological and historical demographic research indicates that childlessness is a recurring social phenomenon that has affected 1 in 5 older women in many cultures and historical periods. High levels of childlessness arise not solely or primarily from biological factors like primary sterility, but from a combination of actors. Many, like non-marriage, delayed childbearing, and pathological sterility, reflect the interaction of social and biological influences.

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