Beschreibung:
Concerns about declining fertility rates are matched only by fearsthat childhood is being destroyed by modern parenting practices. Thismultidisciplinary volume offers a more balanced, less alarmistperspective on the meanings and implications of these issues. Contraryto predictions about the end of children and the end of childhood, these investigations of developments in Canada and the United States, and to a lesser extent elsewhere in the world, show that fertilityrates and ideas about children and childhood are not uniform but rathervary around the globe based on factors such as time, culture, class, income, and age.
Introduction / Nathanael Lauster and Graham Allan