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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452113303321

Titolo

The end of children? [[electronic resource] ] : changing trends in childbearing and childhood / / edited by Nathanael Lauster and Graham Allan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-59667-8

9786613626509

0-7748-2194-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AllanGraham <1948->

LausterNathanael Thomas <1972->

Disciplina

305.2309/04

Soggetti

Children - History - 20th century

Child development - History - 20th century

Human reproduction - History - 20th century

Children - History - 21st century

Child development - History - 21st century

Human reproduction - History - 21st century

Children

Child development

Human reproduction

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.