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The end of children? : changing trends in childbearing and childhood /

In developing countries, concerns about declining fertility rates are matched only by fears that childhood is being destroyed by modern parenting practices. This timely volume brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to provide a more balanced, less alarmist perspective on the meanings and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Allan, Graham, 1948-, Lauster, Nathanael Thomas, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Fertility change in North America, 1950-2000 / Mira Whyman, Megan Lemmon, and Jay Teachman
  • Changing children and changing cultures : immigration as a source of fertility and the assumptions of assimilation / Nathanael Lauster, Todd F. Martin, and James M. White
  • Using infertility, useful fertility : cultural imperatives on the value of children in the United States / Rebecca L. Upton
  • The performance of motherhood and fertility decline : a stage props approach / Nathanael Lauster
  • Parenthood, immortality, and the end of childhood / Nicholas W. Townsend
  • Leaving home : an example of the disappearance of childhood and its end as a predictable set of uniform experiences / Adena B.K. Miller
  • The disappearance of parents from children's lives : the cummulative effects of child care, child custody, and child welfare policies in Canada / Edward Kruk
  • Navigating the pedagogy of failure : medicine, education, and the disabled child in English Canada, 1900-45 / Mona Gleason
  • Pathologizing childhood / Anita Ilta Garey
  • From children to child : ending in China / Jing Zhao, Nathanael Lauster, and Graham Allan.