Journal articles: 'Childless couples'

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Brunner, John. "Childless couples and delinquent children." Science and Public Policy 12, no. 3 (1985): 149–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/spp/12.3.149.

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Bali, Anita, Rajni Dhingra, and Anamika Baru. "Marital Adjustment of Childless Couples." Journal of Social Sciences 24, no. 1 (2010): 73–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09718923.2010.11892839.

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Iskandar, Abdul Malik, Hasanuddin Kasim, and Harifuddin Halim. "The Childless Couple Efforts to Harmonize Their Marital Relationships." Society 7, no. 2 (2019): 135–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.33019/society.v7i2.100.

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This research is to reveal (1) the childless couple's efforts to harmonize their marital relationships, (2) the efforts against stigma related to childless couples. This research is a quantitative descriptive using a survey approach. This research was conducted in East Pantar District, Alor Regency, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Province, Indonesia. The respondents were determined by using total sampling. Data collection techniques were carried out through questionnaires, interviews, and literature studies. Data were analyzed quantitatively using frequency tabulation and Likert Scale. The results showed that (1) The efforts to harmonize the marital relationships of childless couples are (a) internal efforts by strengthening communication and cooperation with a partner; (b) couples receive external support. (2) Efforts against stigma are (a) having positive thinking, (b) avoiding conflict, (c) avoiding sensitive talk. Based on the indicators, there were ten respondents' efforts to harmonize their marital relationships. This condition makes married couples have power and deal with the social stigma about them. The conclusion is that married couples make various efforts to harmonize their marital relationships and still hope to have children in their marriage life.

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Bozhedomov, V. A. "ANDROLOGY ASPECTS OF AID CHILDLESS COUPLES." Herald Urology, no. 1 (March 20, 2015): 24–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.21886/2308-6424-2015-0-1-24-34.

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Ochieng', Ephraim Otieno. "The Burden of Childlessness to Luo Women in Kenya." East African Journal of Traditions, Culture and Religion 2, no. 1 (2020): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.37284/eajtcr.2.1.147.

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In the contemporary world, the issue of childbearing is a matter of choice. A couple may decide to bear children or not. However, within the Luo community, childbearing is an obligation that must be fulfilled by every couple; when this is not met, the couple faces several challenges. This is due to the importance the Luo community have on children. Children ensure the continuity of the lineage, and they ensure the immortality of the dead parents, among others. This article examines the burden the Luo childlessness women have to bear. The findings in this article are based on a cross-sectional field study conducted among the Catholic Luo childless couples in Western Kenya. The Luo Catholic childless couples were sampled using snowball, the Catholic priests and catechists were purposively sampled, and, the Small Christian Community (SCC) leaders were systematically sampled. Data was collected through in-depth oral interviews and Focus Group Discussions. These generated qualitative data that was transcribed, coded, analyzed thematically and presented in a descriptive form and verbatim narratives as stated by the key informants. The findings of the study indicate that the Luo childless women face a number of challenges such as alienation, stigmatization, and ridicule, among others. These challenges affect their lives within the families and at the entire community. The study recommends that childless couples to undergo a medical examination to ascertain if they can be assisted.

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Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya, Zeynep Çopur, Victor Romano, and Susan Cody-Rydzewski. "University Students’ Perceptions of Parents and Childless or Childfree Couples." Journal of Family Issues 39, no. 1 (2015): 155–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x15618993.

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Earlier studies have documented persistent negative stereotypes of childless or childfree adults, though acceptance has increased in recent decades. Recent studies have also shown negative biases against parents, especially mothers, in work-related contexts. The current study used college students’ responses to hypothetical vignettes ( N = 1,266) to compare perceptions of childless and childfree adults and parents using means comparisons with generalized linear modeling methods, controlling for student and vignette characteristics. Results showed that parents were perceived as warmer, but with less positive marital relationships, than those without children. Mothers were perceived as more stressed and childless men and women as more emotionally troubled, but there were few differences in work-related perceptions. Childless wives with no plans to have children were perceived as least warm, whereas husbands were perceived as least stressed. Results indicate some persistent negative stereotypes of childless adults along with negative perceptions of stress and marital strains related to parenthood.

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LaMastro, Valerie. "CHILDLESS BY CHOICE? ATTRIBUTIONS AND ATTITUDES CONCERNING FAMILY SIZE." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 29, no. 3 (2001): 231–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2001.29.3.231.

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This study investigated the attributions of naive perceivers regarding the voluntary or involuntary nature of a target couple's family size, and examined the personality characteristics ascribed to persons with families of varying sizes. Undergraduate students (N = 274) read one of 24 paragraphs describing a couple who varied with respect to number of children and male/female employment status. Targets were rated on 28 personality characteristics and 7 relationship quality statements. Participants provided attributions for the couple's family size and completed the Bem Sex Role Inventory. Results indicated that, overall, perceivers attributed family size to voluntary factors. Childless individuals were rated less positively regardless of the attributions made for their childlessness. Parents of any size family were perceived similarly. The Bem classification of the perceiver was unrelated to judgments. Applications to understanding the support needs of infertile couples are discussed.

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Gallego Martelo, Sandra María, Lina María Ceballos, and Maria Claudia Mejia-Gil. "Leisure lifestyles of childless couples vs. Full nest." Estudios de Administración 27, no. 1 (2020): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5354/0719-0816.2020.56971.

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Despite multiple studies related to lifestyles and family life cycle, few academics have concentrated on leisure topics in emerging countries, such as Colombia. This qualitative study was conducted via 16 in-depth interviews and a total of 32 participants to explore lifestyles in terms of leisure among couples by their family life cycle, specifically couples starting a life together (couples without children) and those who are already in the stage of raising young children (full nest). Literature indicates that lifestyles and leisure are directly related to the economic situation; therefore, this study focuses on participants with greater economic income, which is represented by individuals from the upper-middle and upper strata (5 and 6) in the city of Medellín, Colombia (South America). Findings reveal similar lifestyles in terms of leisure in both types of couples. However, the availability of time, frequency, and type of products or services in which these couples invest their time and money present some differences, especially due to children. This study can be useful to marketing managers whose target market is related to homes in family formation.

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Kopper, Beverly A., and M. Shelton Smith. "Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Infertility and Childless Couples." Journal of Applied Social Psychology 31, no. 11 (2001): 2275–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.2001.tb00175.x.

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Glöckner, D., K. Gaevert, and J. Kleinstein. "Declining sperm quality in men of childless couples." Andrologia 30, no. 1 (2009): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0272.1998.tb01383.x.

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Bainbridge, Jane. "Screening eggs for abnormalities: hope for childless couples?" British Journal of Midwifery 15, no. 3 (2007): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjom.2007.15.3.23025.

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Pickrell, J. "HUMAN CLONING: Experts Assail Plan to Help Childless Couples." Science 291, no. 5511 (2001): 2061–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.291.5511.2061.

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Yang, Sungeun, and Paul C. Rosenblatt. "Confucian Family Values and Childless Couples in South Korea." Journal of Family Issues 29, no. 5 (2007): 571–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x07309462.

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Humphrey, Michael, and Heather Humphrey. "Marital relationships in couples seeking donor insemination." Journal of Biosocial Science 19, no. 2 (1987): 209–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021932000016801.

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SummaryFindings are reported on 100 couples who had requested donor insemination as a means of circumventing male infertility. Twelve couples dropped out, but the remainder were graded for personal acceptability. Forty-six couples were recommended with only minor reservations if any, 40 were seen as unsatisfactory in varying degree, and two were rejected owing to gross marital and sexual problems. In one couple, early marital breakdown after childbirth occurred.A strong sense of mutual commitment may be the norm in such couples but exchange of affection between partners, as measured by the Ryle marital patterns test, was less vivid than in an earlier study of childless couples waiting to adopt. The infertile husband may be in particular need of emotional support from his wife, and a careful appraisal of the marriage seems warranted before treatment.

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Laumonier, Lucie Jenny. "Childless Families in Languedoc in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries." Journal of Family History 45, no. 4 (2020): 359–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0363199020938361.

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Childlessness was a widespread concern for late medieval couples. In the southern French diocese of Maguelone, an average of 43 percent of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century urban testators and of 25 percent of rural testators had no children alive although they were or had been married. This article investigates, first, patterns of childlessness in time and space based on the analysis of close to 1,100 wills. In a second time, the focus shifts toward the causes of childlessness, understood as resulting from both the death of children and issues of infertility. A series of factors, some environmental, other due to the nature of sources, explain why urban couples exhibit higher rates of childlessness than rural couples. The last section of this article explores the consequences of the absence of children on the transmission of estates and on support for the elderly.

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Bergsvik, Janna, Ragni Hege Kitterød, and Kenneth Aarskaug Wiik. "Parenthood and Couples’ Relative Earnings in Norway." European Sociological Review 36, no. 2 (2019): 218–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcz062.

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Abstract With the advance of the gender revolution, income dynamics in couples are changing. Nonetheless, in most Western societies, parenthood still promotes specialized gender roles. Utilizing Norwegian register data on all married and cohabiting couples born 1946–1989, we investigate possible changes in the associations between parenthood and within-couple inequality in earnings in the years 2005–2014. Precisely, using interactions and fixed effects models, we compare the development of within-couple gender gaps in earnings over time between childless couples and couples with children of different ages, and within couples before and after childbirth. Results showed that the gender gap in earnings in couples increased with the number of children and was most distinct among couples with children below 6 years. However, the association between parenthood and within-couple inequality in earnings was reduced across the study period, a development partly driven by a decreasing fatherhood premium evident from 2009 onwards. Not only women’s but also men’s income development is now negatively affected by having young children in the household. Our findings, thus, indicate important changes in how men and women prioritize paid labour after a childbirth.

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Çopur, Zeynep, and Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox. "University Students’ Perceptions of Childless Couples and Parents in Ankara, Turkey." Journal of Family Issues 31, no. 11 (2010): 1481–506. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x10361577.

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Changing perceptions of childlessness have been documented in the United States, but little is known about perceptions in developing countries undergoing rapid social changes and globalization, including Turkey. This project uses a survey and hypothetical vignettes about childless couples and parents to assess university students’ perceptions of childlessness ( N = 850). The authors find that parents are rated higher on interpersonal warmth and marital relationship quality, but mothers are seen as more stressed. Childless men and women are perceived as more driven but also as more emotionally troubled. The results indicate the continued importance of parenthood among Turkish students but also an understanding of women’s stresses in combining work and motherhood. The authors find relatively few rural and urban differences, whereas gender and income differences may reflect greater awareness of work—family concerns and acceptance of childlessness among women and higher income students.

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Baru, Anamika, and Rajni Dhingra. "Social Status of Childless Couples in Three Different Ecological Settings." Anthropologist 5, no. 4 (2003): 247–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09720073.2003.11890816.

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Mulgaonkar, Veena B. "Childless couples in the slums of Mumbai: An interdisciplinary study." Asia-Pacific Population Journal 16, no. 2 (2001): 141–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.18356/9b443b45-en.

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Lewis, Suzan N. C., and Cary L. Cooper. "The transition to parenthood in dual-earner couples." Psychological Medicine 18, no. 2 (1988): 477–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700008011.

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SynopsisThe impact of the transition to parenthood for dual-earner couples was examined in a longitudinal study. Data were collected by questionnaire from couples expecting their first child, during pregnancy and after maternity leave, and from childless couples at two separate time points. The impact of the transition was minimal overall, although women experienced more pressure than men and there were some cases of extreme stress. New single-earner parents reported a greater decline in life satisfaction than dual-earners.

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Relon, Luzviminda P. "Beliefs, Health-Seeking Practices, and Effects of Childlessness: The Experiences of Married Women." JPAIR Multidisciplinary Research 32, no. 1 (2018): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.7719/jpair.v32i1.575.

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In a society which recognizes the significance of children, giving birth to a child completes womanhood and the family. Thus, being a mother is synonymous with being a woman. The failure, then to become a mother, constitutes not fully achieving the status of a woman. Relatively, the desire for motherhood is inevitable and almost universal. This qualitative study analyzed the beliefs, and experiences of married women focused on their childlessness, health-seeking practices, and effects. Data were gathered through in-depth interview. Results showed that childlessness typified an unanticipated condition among the childless women. Regardless of the current age, age at marriage, marital duration, educational attainment and income, the respondents disclosed that childlessness is a condition which can be treated, provided the woman is still young. Childless women with higher income would likely seek medical help. Length of marriage disclosed to have affected the childless women’s recognition of their incapability to sire. Open communication coupled with trust, love, and understanding between couples would keep the marriage intact. Findings revealed that their self-esteem, marital relationship, relationship with relatives and friends were affected by the absence of children. Almost all of the respondents expressed that the communities they are into neither, in any way, bothered with their condition nor rejected them due to their childlessness.

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Miai Sung, 이재림, and 최연실. "Portraits of Childless Couples in South Korea Ⅱ : Factors Predicting Voluntary and Involuntary Childless Married Koreans’ Psychological Well-Being." Family and Culture 26, no. 1 (2014): 72–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.21478/family.26.1.201403.003.

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van Balen, F., and T. C. M. Trimbos-Kemper. "Involuntarily Childless Couples: Their Desire to have Children and Their Motives." Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology 16, no. 3 (1995): 137–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/01674829509024462.

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Schytt, E. "Agreement in Swedish childless couples' reproductive intentions in relation to age." Midwifery 30, no. 3 (2014): e43-e48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2013.10.019.

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Gold, Joshua M. "The Experiences of Childfree and Childless Couples in a Pronatalistic Society." Family Journal 21, no. 2 (2013): 223–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1066480712468264.

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Wagner, Jenny, Cornelia Wrzus, Franz J. Neyer, and Frieder R. Lang. "Social Network Characteristics of Early Midlife Voluntarily and Involuntarily Childless Couples." Journal of Family Issues 36, no. 1 (2013): 87–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x13490931.

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DeOllos, Ione Y., and Carolyn A. Kapinus. "Aging Childless Individuals and Couples: Suggestions for New Directions in Research." Sociological Inquiry 72, no. 1 (2002): 72–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475-682x.00006.

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Ramu, G. N. "Voluntarily childless and parental couples: A comparison of their lifestyle characteristics." Lifestyles 7, no. 3 (1985): 130–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00986582.

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Serapinas, Danielius, Emilija Valantinavičienė, Eglė Machtejevienė, Agnė Bartkevičiūtė, and Daiva Bartkevičienė. "Evaluation of Chromosomal Structural Anomalies in Fertility Disorders." Medicina 57, no. 1 (2021): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina57010037.

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Background and objectives: Reproductive disorders may occur not only due to environmental factors (air pollution, stressful lifestyle, previous abortions or the use of contraceptives) but also due to genetic factors. Materials and Methods: The aim of the study was to identify the range and frequency of chromosomal aberrations in couples (n = 99) with infertility or recurrent miscarriages in Lithuania. The data were collected from the out-patient medical histories. The couples were divided into three groups based on pregnancy, childbirth and the number of miscarriages. The Chi-square test was used to carry out the statistical analysis, and the statistical significance was (p < 0.05). Results: There were 6.6% (n = 13) structural changes observed in the karyotype tests. Chromosomal aberrations were found in 3% (n = 6) of the subjects, while 3.6% (n = 7) of them had chromosomal length polymorphisms. No difference was found between the aberration frequency in the karyotypes of men and women (p > 0.05). The most common aberrations were balanced translocations (23.1%, n = 3) which accounted for 15.4% of the reciprocal (n = 2) and 7.7% of the Robertsonian type (n = 1) of translocations. The most frequent aberrations were found in couples with the inability to conceive (42.9% (n = 3), p = 0.031). The childless couples and those with recurrent miscarriages showed an aberration rate of 8.2% (n = 5), while in the couples with at least one child it was 16.1% (n = 5). The group of couples unable to conceive had a significantly higher aberration rate of 28.6% (n = 2), p = 0.029. Miscarriages in partners’ families accounted for 8.1%. Miscarriages on the female side of the family accounted for 4.5% (n = 9), on the male side it accounted for 2.5% (n = 5) and on both sides it accounted for 1.1% (n = 2). There were no statistically significant differences observed between the female and male sides (p > 0.05). The miscarriages observed in the second group of couples (childless with ≥2 miscarriages) were more frequent at 18.1% (n = 11), in the third group (having children ≥2 miscarriages) they were less frequent at 12.9% (n = 4), while no miscarriages were recorded in the first group of infertile couples. In total, 3% of the identified significant chromosomal aberrations were likely to trigger miscarriages or the inability to conceive. Conclusions: In couples with reproductive disorders, chromosomal mutations and chromosomal length polymorphisms were found at similar rates: 3% vs. 3.6%. The highest aberration rate was found in couples that were unable to conceive, a lower one was found in a group with children and ≥2 miscarriages, and the lowest one was found in a childless group of subjects with ≥2 miscarriages. The miscarriage rate in partner families was 8.1%; however, no difference was found between the male and female sides.

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Kumar, Mukesh, and Naresh Lata Singla. "Practice of Surrogacy in India: A Ray of Hope for Childless Couples." Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities 7, no. 6 (2017): 92. http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/2249-7315.2017.00333.1.

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Lindström, Håkan, and Susanne Waldau. "Ethically acceptable prioritisation of childless couples and treatment rationing: “Accountability for reasonableness”." European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology 139, no. 2 (2008): 176–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejogrb.2008.02.018.

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Smith, Imogene, Tess Knight, Richard Fletcher, and Jacqui A. Macdonald. "When men choose to be childless: An interpretative phenomenological analysis." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 37, no. 1 (2019): 325–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407519864444.

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A growing number of individuals expressly choose to remain childless, yet research exploring these intentions in men remains scarce. This study examines the experiences, subjective reasoning, and decision-making processes of voluntarily childless Australian men near the median age for first-time fatherhood. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 Australian-resident men (28–34 years; M = 31; SD = 1.48). Participants were selected from the Men and Parenting Pathways longitudinal cohort study ( N = 609) based on having stated they did not want to have children “at all.” Data were collected and analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Analysis identified a superordinate theme; Fatherhood: The door is still ajar, which was marked by the men’s reluctance to unequivocally commit to a childless future. Subordinate themes were The Realization, The Talk (or lack of…), The Rationale, and The Pressure. At the normative age for transitioning to parenthood, role choices are salient. Overall, men’s decision-making process to not have children appears to be fluid and influenced by intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Despite changing social trends and acceptance of divergent life trajectories, these men are acutely aware that their intentions place them outside the norm. In policy and practice, it is important to recognize the changing norms around fatherhood timing and support voluntarily childless men and couples in constructing their identities, life course, incongruent decisions, and relationships.

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Huber, Sarah, Sharvari Karandikar, and Lindsay Gezinski. "Exploring Indian Surrogates’ Perceptions of the Ban on International Surrogacy." Affilia 33, no. 1 (2017): 69–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886109917729667.

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This study examined surrogate women’s perceptions on the Indian ban on international surrogacy. In-depth interviews were conducted with 25 surrogate women at a fertility clinic in Gujarat, India. Three themes emerged: (1) perceptions of the ban; (2) impact of the ban on surrogates, international couples, and fertility clinics; and (3) long-term economic results of surrogacy. Women stated that international surrogacy should not be banned, because it provides substantial economic benefits. They also noted that the ban affects childless couples and clinics by cutting off a source of income. This research provides recommendations for social work action.

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Krickovic-Pele, Ksenija, and Kosana Beker. "Gender and social controversies of in vitro fertilization in Serbia: Discrimination against childless women." Temida 17, no. 3 (2014): 49–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/tem1403049k.

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This paper analyses gender and social controversies of assisted reproductive technologies and the discrimination of childless women in Serbia. Primary goals of this paper are critical analysis of new reproductive technologies phenomenon, discrimination against women without children and critical analysis of the legal framework regulating biomedical assisted reproduction in Serbia from gender studies and feminist methodology perspectives, as well as presentation of the research results on discrimination of childless women. For the purpose of this research the survey and the content analysis have been used. A survey was conducted of 50 female participants in the in vitro fertilization program at the Department for Gynecology and Obstetrics in Novi Sad. The results indicate that the regulations on biomedical assisted reproduction and the criteria for inclusion in the in vitro fertilization program are discriminatory and that women involved in the program feel discriminated against, usually at work and in their own surroundings. The conclusion is that it is necessary to change the regulations governing this area, further work on the elimination of discrimination against childless women and destigmatisation of women and couples that cannot or do not want to have children.

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Osiewalska, Beata. "Couples’ socioeconomic resources and completed fertility in Poland." Studia Demograficzne, no. 1(167) (June 12, 2015): 31–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.33119/sd.2015.1.2.

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Recently, a growing number of studies have examined the impact of educational level and educational enrolment on the childbearing behaviour of both sexes. At the same time, other socioeconomic characteristics, such as educational field or occupation, are usually neglected or, if included, focus only on women. This study aims at analyzing how socioeconomic resources of both partners in a couple affect their completed fertility in a relatively gender-conservative country – Poland. As a representative of the postsocialist European countries, Poland is an interesting case study, in which women are often double burdened and the conditions to develop a family are more difficult. Since behavioural drivers could differ between parents and childless couples, the Bayesian Zero-Inflated Poisson model consisting of two states (childlessness and parenthood) is applied. The first-wave Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) data for Poland from 2011 are used. The results confirm that including both partners’ socioeconomic resources in the model increases the ability to characterise couples’ childbearing behaviour. In particular, the occupation of both partners occurs to have a substantial influence on their completed family size.

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Vashkar, Shaikh Mahmud Kamal, Nazia Ehsan, and Fariha Haseen. "Psychosocial Effects of Infertility among the Childless couples at a Specialized Fertility Centre in Dhaka, Bangladesh." Bangladesh Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 31, no. 1 (2017): 28–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjog.v31i1.34273.

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Objective(s): To identify the common psychosocial effects of infertility among the childless couples of Bangladesh.Materials and Methods: This cross sectional quantitative survey was conducted at a tertiary level fertility center in Dhaka, Bangladesh from November 14, 2012 to November 30, 2012. Respondents were chosen by judgment sampling. Only the couples without any child were chosen for interview. Sixty-six couples were interviewed and three couples refused who came for treatment at the center. Primary data was collected from the respondents with preformed questionnaire. Informed written consent was taken before the interview, from both partners or only one partner where the other was absentResults: The mean ages of the men were 36 years and women were 28 years. The mean age for age at marriage of men and women were 29 and 22 respectively. Among the psychological effects, stress and anxiety were common in both men and women. Family problems were found less among the respondents. Only significant one that was found in both men and women was the pressure from family members, which was found in about one third of the respondents. Social effects were not found among half of the respondents. The other half avoided family gatherings (16%), meeting friends (13%), social gatherings (10%) and 15% respondents said that they do not like to go out at all.Conclusion: The psychosocial effects of infertile couples can lead to depression, frustration and sometimes aggression making them dysfunctional social beings. It also decreases work productivity and quality of life. Necessary preventive measures should be taken through appropriate public health interventions like patient counseling, awareness campaign etc. to avoid the psychosocial consequences.Bangladesh J Obstet Gynaecol, 2016; Vol. 31(1) : 28-33

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Hunt, Janet G., and Elaine Campbell. "The Childless Marriage: An Exploratory Study of Couples who do Not Want Children." Contemporary Sociology 16, no. 3 (1987): 426. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2070365.

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Henz, Ursula. "Gender roles and values of children: Childless Couples in East and West Germany." Demographic Research 19 (August 22, 2008): 1451–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.4054/demres.2008.19.39.

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Dhar, Rajib Lochan. "Lived Experiences of Childless Couples: A Phenomenological Study From the Indian Rural Context." Marriage & Family Review 49, no. 4 (2013): 265–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2012.762445.

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Van Bavel, J., and J. Kok. "Pioneers of the Modern Lifestyle?: Childless Couples in the Early-Twentieth-Century Netherlands." Social Science History 34, no. 1 (2010): 47–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01455532-2009-016.

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Bram, Susan. "Childlessness revisited: A longitudinal study of voluntarily childless couples, delayed parents, and parents." Lifestyles 8, no. 1 (1985): 46–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01435914.

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Pahz, James A. "Building Families through Intercountry Adoption." International Quarterly of Community Health Education 8, no. 1 (1987): 91–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/la19-py1p-2j7n-rhgn.

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In the United States today, one in six couples face the problem of infertility. Although advanced medical techniques will be able to help about half of those couples, the remainder will stay childless. For those adults who desire the parenting experience, adoption is an important solution. Since healthy, adoptable infants are increasingly difficult to find in the United States, parents wanting to adopt are looking elsewhere. Intercountry adoption offers a solution to the problem of not being able to find healthy infants for adoption. Adopting from a foreign country is an option which is being selected by more and more Americans who wish to add to their family.

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Dorche, Khadijeh Panahi, Seyed Ali Kimiaei, and Melika Ghahramanzadeh. "Evaluating the Effect of Solution-Focused Group Counseling on Improving Quality of Marital Relationships in Childless Couples." International Journal of Psychological Studies 9, no. 1 (2017): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijps.v9n1p81.

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This study investigated the effect of solution-focused counseling on improving the quality of marital relationships on childless couples. This study is a quasi-experimental using pre-test, post-test with a waiting list control group. Sample population of this study was visiting in a Welfare and Education center in city of Eafahan. Fourteen couples were selected randomly through stratified random sampling method and were equally assigned to experimental and waiting list control groups. They completed the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS). The results showed that solution-focused counseling not only significantly increases the quality of marital relationship but also improve dyadic consensus, affective expression, dyadic cohesion and marital satisfaction.

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WILLIAMS, LINDA S. "Adoption Actions and Attitudes of Couples Seeking In Vitro Fertilization." Journal of Family Issues 13, no. 1 (1992): 99–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019251392013001007.

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This exploratory study examines the adoption actions and attitudes of 16 childless women, and the husbands of 14 of these women, who applied for or underwent in vitro fertilization (IVF) in Ontario, Canada, between 1984 and 1987. Interview data reveal that IVF and adoption were sought concurrently by most of these couples and that wives were more in favor of adoption than were husbands. The author concludes that the continued importance of the biological tie between parent and child plus the current lack of “adoptable” babies will ensure that the demand for IVF remains high. However, unless the success rate of IVF increases dramatically, IVF couples will also continue to seek adoption.

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Van Bavel, Jan, and Jan Kok. "Pioneers of the Modern Lifestyle?" Social Science History 34, no. 1 (2010): 47–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0145553200014073.

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In many Western countries, including the Netherlands, couples marrying in the interwar period experienced unprecedentedly high levels of childlessness. Only recently do we witness a return to these levels, as part and parcel of the so-called second demographic transition. Looking back on the interwar period, many scholars have attributed the decline of fertility and the increase of childlessness to rampant economic and political instability. However, contemporary social scientists ascribed the phenomenon to individualization, secularization, and the priority newlywed couples gave to a career and a luxurious lifestyle. From this perspective, childless couples in the interwar period could be seen as “pioneers” of the second demographic transition. To disentangle “traditional” and “modern” backgrounds of childlessness, we have studied the fertility histories of nearly 3,000 Dutch couples married between 1919 and 1938. Our results, in particular the strong association of childlessness with religiously mixed marriage, confirm that an important part of childlessness in the interwar period can be associated with a modern, individualized lifestyle.

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Unisa, Sayeed. "Sequence of fertility treatments among childless couples in Ranga Reddy District, Andhra Pradesh, India." Asia-Pacific Population Journal 16, no. 2 (2001): 161–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.18356/1958b1a4-en.

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Aalto, Kristiina, and Johanna Varjonen. "Differences in the rhythms of daily life between young childless couples and new parents." Family Science 5, no. 1 (2014): 11–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19424620.2014.927383.

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Neyer, Franz J., Cornelia Wrzus, Jenny Wagner, and Frieder R. Lang. "Principles of Relationship Differentiation." European Psychologist 16, no. 4 (2011): 267–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000055.

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The authors propose a model of relationship differentiation that is based on two psychological mechanisms, the regulation of emotional closeness and the monitoring of reciprocity. Both combined are expected to define relationship systems of differential reproductive significance: Relative to others, kin relationships are predicted by higher closeness and lower reciprocity, cooperative (non-kin) relationships by lower closeness and higher reciprocity, and partner relationships by both higher closeness and higher reciprocity. These assumptions could be confirmed by two studies involving 455 young adults and 171 middle-aged couples from different family forms (i.e., traditional and patchwork families, involuntary and motivated childless couples). Effects varied primarily due to parental investment such that parental partners become less distinguishable from kin, or, in other words, more like “elected kin”. Results highlight the flexibility of relationship differentiation.

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Ramu, G. N., and Nicholas Tavuchis. "The Valuation of Children and Parenthood Among the Voluntarily Childless and Parental Couples in Canada." Journal of Comparative Family Studies 17, no. 1 (1986): 99–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jcfs.17.1.99.

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Ristovski-Slijepcevic, S., and G. E. Chapman. "Integration and individuality in healthy eating: meanings, values, and approaches of childless, dual earner couples." Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics 18, no. 4 (2005): 301–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-277x.2005.00623.x.

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