Doing Family Without Having Kids
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5850529 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy Blackstone (University of Maine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 52-62 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soc4.12102 |
| OpenAlex | W1941064778 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 75 |
Families that do not include children are largely overlooked by family scholars and in popular discourse. Yet this is one of several family forms that has grown in developed nations since the 1970s. As increasingly fewer adults choose to become parents, understanding the families they create, and the consequences of these family forms, will become even more important. Studies of childless adults reveal that they create bonds to fulfill many of the same functions that families with children fulfill. Research on how, and the extent to which, the childless "do" family without kids is reviewed and suggestions for future research are made
Child Welfare and Adoption · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
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Voluntarily Childfree
Religion and Attitudes toward Childlessness in the United States
Men as Carers in Long-Term Caring
Lived Experiences of Childfree Lesbians in the United Kingdom
Ambiguous Financial Responsibilities
Body Pedagogics, Transactional Identities and Human-Animal Relations
Four's a Crowd? Attachment Styles in Childless Women and First-Time Mothers Toward Their Pet Dog
Negotiated Bonds
The Roles of Pet Dogs and Cats in Human Courtship and Dating
People's Heads Do Not Even Go There
Feeding the family
Managing like a man
Single women, voluntary childlessness and perceptions about life and marriage
Suffer the little children
Pathways Into Childlessness
Marital satisfaction across the transition to parenthood.
More than a labour of love
Gender and Social Reproduction
Parenthood and Happiness
Parenthood and Marital Satisfaction
Choosing to be Childfree
Procreative Mothers (Sexual Difference) and Child-Free Sisters (Gender)
Loneliness among the Never and Formerly Married
Perceptions of childfree women
Childlessness and Women Managers
Voluntarily childless women
Stigmatization of Non-Normative Family Size Status
Gender-role orientations in older child-free and expectant couples
Through the Lenses of Gender, Race, and Class
Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater
Childlessness Among Men in Australia
What childless older people give
Childlessness at the end of life
The wellbeing of childless men and fathers in mid-life
Childlessness and intergenerational transfers
Childless No Choice
Religion and fertility in the United States
Key Relationships of Never Married, Childless Older Women
Happiness, Housework and Gender Inequality in Europe
Childlessness and Its Correlates in Historical Perspective
Voluntary Childlessness Among American Men and Women in the Late 1980's
Religiosity of Married Couples and Childlessness
Housework in Marital and Nonmarital Households
Voluntary Childlessness
Women's Voluntary Childlessness
Vacant Wombs
The division of labor and depressive symptoms at the couple level
Pets and Urban Life
A Comparison of Voluntarily Childfree Adults and Parents
Perceptions of Parents, the Voluntarily and Involuntarily Childless
The Desire for Voluntary Childlessness among Low-Income Youth
Pets, Families, and the Life Course
The Personal and Marital Adjustment of Mothers and of Voluntarily and Involuntarily Childless Wives
Stereotypes Relating to Family-Size Status
Religious Homogamy and Voluntary Childlessness in Canada
Stigma Management among the Voluntarily Childless
Care Work
What determines change in the division of housework over the course of marriage
University Students' Perceptions of Childless Couples and Parents in Ankara, Turkey
Public Spectacles of Private Spheres
Pathways to Childlessness
Family change and the state of family sociology
Childlessness Among Older Women in the United States
Choosing Childlessness
The gendered division of labor and family outcomes in germany
Aging Childless Individuals and Couples
Childless and Bereft
Life Outcomes of Childless Men and Fathers
Her money, her time
The Impact of Having a Baby on the Level and Content of Women's Well-Being
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,73 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |