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Childlessness Preferences

Childlessness Preferences is a fertility preference construct that denotes an individual's deliberate desire to remain without biological children throughout their reproductive life, distinguished from involuntary childlessness by its intentional and often ideologically or pragmatically motivated nature.

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Citations

43

Authors

23

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

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Publications

23

What You Can't Expect When You're Expecting

L. A. Paul · Res Philosophica · 2013 · 233 citations · Full text

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Persistence and Change in Decisions to Remain Childless

Tim B. Heaton, Cardell K. Jacobson, Kimberlee B Holland · Journal of Marriage and the Family · 1999 · 193 citations

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Choosing to be Childfree: Research on the Decision Not to Parent

Amy Blackstone, Mahala Dyer Stewart · Sociology Compass · 2012 · 147 citations

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Is Zero Preferred? American Attitudes toward Childlessness in the 1970s

Judith Blake · Journal of Marriage and the Family · 1979 · 115 citations

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Attitudes About Childlessness in the United States

Tanya Koropeckyj‐Cox, Gretchen Pendell · Journal of Family Issues · 2007 · 108 citations

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Authors

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  1. AM
    Anneli Miettinen

    Väestöliitto, Finland

    2 publications · 122 citations

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  2. VJ
    Victor J. Callan

    The University of Queensland, Australia

    2 publications · 39 citations

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  3. RF
    Robert F. DeVellis

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

    1 publications · 14 citations

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  4. BB
    Bahar Bahtiyar‐Saygan

    Atilim University, Türkiye

    1 publications · 34 citations

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  5. AB
    Amy Blackstone

    University of Maine, United States

    1 publications · 147 citations

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Institutions

23

  1. FORS – Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences

    Lausanne, Switzerland

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    75 citations

  2. University of Tehran

    Tehran, Iran

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

  3. Väestöliitto

    Helsinki, Finland

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    75 citations

  4. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    23 citations

  5. University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Amherst Center, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    147 citations

  6. Iran University of Medical Sciences

    Tehran, Iran

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

  7. San Diego State University

    San Diego, United States

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    150 citations

  8. University of Maine

    Orono, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    147 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Marriage and the Family

    5 publications · 376 citations

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  2. Journal of Family Issues

    2 publications · 142 citations

    2

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  3. Human Fertility

    2 publications · 24 citations

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  4. Finnish Yearbook of Population Research

    2 publications · 122 citations

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  5. Research in Nursing & Health

    1 publications · 14 citations

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