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...

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...

Although there are well-established relationships between women's higher education, labour force participation (LFP), and occupation on the one hand childlessness other in US, underlying reasons role that desires expectations play remain unclear. We use National Longitudinal Survey of Youth United States (N=4,198 women) apply both logistic regression models to examine early life, multilevel for...