We document new facts on the distribution of male fertility and its relationship with men's labor market outcomes. Using Norwegian registry data all births since 1967, we show that rates childlessness in recent cohorts are 72% among lowest five percent earners but only 11% highest earners, this gap widened by almost 20 percentage points over last thirty cohort years. There has been a compressio...

A content analysis of chat utterances generated by in vitro fertilization (IVF) patients and healthcare professionals revealed that most chat is about the treatment itself and not about childlessness; 56% discloses psychological aspects, 27% physical aspects, and 17% social aspects of the treatment; and that accounts of both external and internal coping behaviors could be identified.

An individual's happiness is closely related to their family life as the institution in which they spend most of life. Capitalizing on data from 2018 China Family Panel Studies, this study investigates relationship between economic standing (measured by household income and homeownership) processes marital status childlessness), well children's characteristics gender composition children adult ...

The present study aimed at investigating and comparing the differences in the levels of depression inflicted by childbearing and childless couples. A sample of 400 couples; 200 childless and 200 childbearing couples ranging in age from 20-69 years was taken from different cities of Pakistan. To measure the depression, Beck Depression Inventory (Beck, Ward, Mendelson, Mock & Erbaugh, 1961) was u...

This qualitative research study aimed to examine aspects of posttraumatic growth (PTG) in women with a long-standing experience involuntary childlessness. In-depth semi-structured interviews, lasting an average 53 min, were conducted the Czech Republic. Twenty-four women, averaging 38.8 years old 6.2 infertility experience, participated. They asked how childlessness affected/changed their partn...

their extension and co-ordination. It is understood that some extension of the scope of the National Health insurance Act is contemplated, and that Hospital and Pecialist Services may be included in the sphere of ?peration of the Act. The Voluntary Hospitals in Glasgow and the West Scotland submitted a Memorandum and gave ^idence before the Committee. By the courtesy of rRobert F. Barclay this ...

OBJECTIVE This report analyzes the patterns of childlessness, and conversely, the first-birth patterns of three birth cohorts of American women. For this report, a cohort refers to women born in the same year. The cohorts compared were women born in 1910, 1935, and 1960-who, consequently, turned 25 during the Great Depression, the Baby Boom, and lastly, the post-Baby Boom period. The purpose of...