Voluntarily childless men: socio-cultural reasons why young Poles are not assuming a parental role

Stigma Management among the Voluntarily Childless

Individuals who choose not to be parents are viewed in terms of negative stereotypes and experience social pressures to alter or justify their status. Data were collected from in-depth interviews with twenty-four voluntarily childless women and men and a focus group that included seven of the interviewed individuals. Inductive analysis discovered the techniques that individuals used, in self-in...

The reasons so many people support physician-assisted suicide--and why these reasons are not convincing.

Why don’t married men take parental leave?

Despite its availability, only a few married men use parental leave in Canada while almost all eligible married women take parental leave. As possible explanations, I consider gender differences in rental rates of human capital, wage growth processes, wage penalties for time off from work, preferences for leisure, and relative productivity in home production. I briefly document empirical backgr...

Why Reasons May Not Be Causes

This paper considers Davidson’s (1963) arguments for construing reasons as causes and attempts to show that he has failed to provide positive reasons for introducing causation into his analysis of rationalizing explanation. I consider various ways of spelling out his intuition that something is missing from explanation if we consider only the justificatory relation between reasons and action, a...

A Comparative study of Young Learners in their Willingness to Communicate from Socio-cultural Perspective

This study embarks upon uncovering the probable difference in willingness to communicate between Iranian male and female EFL learners. To undertake the present research, it was limited to socio-cognitive perspective. More precisely, it aimed to distinguish the types and frequency of socio-cognitive strategies used by Iranian students as far as their gender was concerned. In doing so, 32 advance...