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1. The Social Meaning of Children and Fertility Change in Europe

   Edited by Anne Lise Ellingsaeter, An-Magritt Jensen, Merete Lie

   Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

   Low fertility in Europe has given rise to the notion of a ‘fertility crisis’. This book shifts the attention from fertility decline to why people do have children, asking what children mean to them. It investigates what role children play in how young adults plan their lives, and why and how young...

   Published February 24th 2013 by Routledge
2. Children and the Changing Family

   Between Transformation and Negotiation

   Edited by An-Magritt Jensen, Lorna McKee

   This timely and thought-provoking book explores how social and family change are colouring the experience of childhood. The book is centred around three major changes: parental employment, family composition and ideology. The authors demonstrate how children's families are transformed in accordance...

   Published December 18th 2002 by Routledge