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The Social Meaning of Children and Fertility Change in Europe

Low fertility in Europe has given rise to the notion of a fertility crisis. This book shifts the attention from fertility decline to why people do have children, asking what children mean to them. It investigates what role children play in how young adults plan their lives, and why and how young adults make the choices they do.

The book aims to expand our comprehension of the complex structures and cultures that influence reproductive choice, and explores three key aspects of fertility choices:

• the processes towards having (or not having) children, and how they are underpinned by negotiations and ambivalences;
• how family policies, labour markets and personal relations interact in young adults fertility choices;
• social differentiation in fertility choice: how fertility rationales and reasoning may differ among women and men, and across social classes.

Based on empirical studies from six nations France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Italy (representing the high and low end of European variation in fertility rates) the book shows how different economic, political and cultural contexts interact in young adults fertility rationales. It will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, anthropology, demography and gender studies.

Anne Lise Ellingster is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oslo.

An-Magritt Jensen is Professor of Sociology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Merete Lie is Professor of Gender Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Routledge/European sociological association studies in European societies

Series editors: Thomas P. Boje, Max Haller, Martin Kohli and Alison Woodward

1 European Societies

Fusion or fission?

Edited by Thomas P. Boje, Bart van Steebergen and Sylvia Walby

2 The Myth of Generational Conflict

The family and State in ageing societies

Edited by Sara Arber and Claudine Attias-Donfut

3 The End of the Welfare State?

Responses to State retrenchment

Edited by Peter Taylor-Gooby and Stefan Svallfors

4 Will Europe Work?

Integration, employment and the social order

Edited by Martin Kohli and Mojca Novak

5 Inclusions and Exclusions in European Societies

Edited by Martin Kohli and Alison Woodward

6 Young Europeans, Work and Family

Futures in transition

Edited by Julia Brannen, Suzan Lewis, Ann Nilsen and Janet Smithsen

7 Autobiographies of Transformation

Lives in Central and Eastern Europe

Edited by Mike Keen and Janusz Mucha

8 Europe and Asia Beyond East and West

Edited by Gerard Delanty

9 Cultural Overstretch

Differences between old and new member states of the EU and Turkey

Edited by Jrgen Gerhards

10 Social Class in Europe

An introduction to the European socio-economic classification

Edited by David Rose and Eric Harrison

11 Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society

Edited by Patrick Baert, Sokratis M. Koniordos, Giovanna Procacci and Carlo Ruzza

12 Muslims in 21st Century Europe

Structural and cultural perspectives

Edited by Anna Triandafyllidou

13 Internationalisation of Social Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe

The catching up a myth or a strategy?

Edited by Ilona Pln Kovcs and Dagmar Kutsar

14 Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads

Edited by Li Bennich-Bjrkman and Aili Aarelaid-Tart

15 Mobilizing Regions, Mobilizing Europe

Expert knowledge and scientific planning in European regional development

Sebastian M. Bttner

16 The Road to Social Europe

A contemporary approach to political cultures and diversity in Europe

Jean-Claude Barbier

17 The Social Meaning of Children and Fertility Change in Europe

Edited by Anne Lise Ellingster, An-Magritt Jensen and Merete Lie

Forthcoming:

Religion, Identity and Politics
Germany and Turkey in Interaction
Haldun Glalp and Gnter Seufert

First published 2013
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2013 selection and editorial material, Anne Lise Ellingster,
An-Magritt Jensen and Merete Lie; individual chapters, the contributors

The right of Anne Lise Ellingster, An-Magritt Jensen and Merete Lie to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
The social meaning of children and fertility change in Europe / edited by
Anne Lise Ellingster, An-Magritt Jensen, and Merete Lie.

p. cm. (Routledge/European Sociological Association studies in
European societies; 17)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. ChildrenEurope. 2. Fertility, HumanEurope. I. Ellingster,
Anne Lise. II. Jensen, An-Magritt. III. Lie, Merete.
HQ792.E8S63 2013
305.23094dc23

2012037243

ISBN: 978-0-415-81091-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-07063-5 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman
by Wearset Lrd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear

Contents

ANNE LISE ELLINGSTER, AN-MAGRITT JENSEN AND MERETE LIE

MARIE-THRSE LETABLIER

ANNE LISE ELLINGSTER AND EIRIN PEDERSEN

KARIN JURCZYK

MAI HEIDE OTTOSEN AND SOFIE SKOVDAL MOURITZEN

MALIN NOEM RAVN AND MERETE LIE

DISA BERGNHR AND EVA BERNHARDT

AN-MAGRITT JENSEN

TRUDE LAPPEGRD, TURID NOACK AND MARIT RNSEN

LAURA BERNARDI

ANNE LISE ELLINGSTER, AN-MAGRITT JENSEN AND MERETE LIE

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Contributors

Disa Bergnhr , Dr., Senior Researcher at the Department of Child Studies, Linkping University. Current work involves research on family policies, family formation, parental support services and schools in disadvantaged areas.

Laura Bernardi , Professor of Demography and Sociology of the Life Course, University of Lausanne, and Vice Director of the Swiss National Center for Competence in Research LIVES. Her research focuses on fertility and family dynamics, intergenerational relations, social networks and demographic behaviour, mixed methods and, recently, on migration.

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