Ageing without Children: European and Asian Perspectives.HV1481 2004-053835 1-57181-614-3 Ageing without children; European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. and Asian perspectives. Title main entry. Ed. by Philip Kreager and Elisabeth Schroder-Butterfill. (Fertility fertility: see infertility. fertility Ability of an individual or couple to reproduce through normal sexual activity. About 80% of healthy, fertile women are able to conceive within one year if they have intercourse regularly without contraception. , reproduction, and sexuality; v.5) Berghahn Books, [c]2004 276 p. $60.00 Rapid fertility declines and improved longevity longevity (lŏnjĕv`ĭtē), term denoting the length or duration of the life of an animal or plant, often used to indicate an unusually long life. are resulting in a shift in the overall balance of population towards older ages in many parts of the world; one of the subgroups of this population are the elderly without children. Ten international academics and researchers contribute nine chapters using a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods to define and characterize the experience of aging without children in Europe and Asia, due to the interaction of biological and social factors. The cross-cultural analyses find that childlessness often compounds social and economic disadvantage and carries unmistakable implications for elderly social exclusion social exclusion Noun Sociol the failure of society to provide certain people with those rights normally available to its members, such as employment, health care, education, etc. and powerlessness pow·er·less adj. 1. Lacking strength or power; helpless and totally ineffectual. 2. Lacking legal or other authority. pow . |
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