Men’s Explanations for Being Childless, a dynamic perspective
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13607804211040094" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13607804211040094</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13607804211040094" target="_blank" >10.1177/13607804211040094</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Men’s Explanations for Being Childless, a dynamic perspective
Original language description
Research on childlessness in contemporary society still focuses mainly on women. This article conversely examines childlessness among men in Czechia – a European post-socialist country in which becoming a parent was a strong social norm before 1989. This article asks how men’s explanations for being childless or childfree change over time and what this says about changing norms attached to parenthood in different historical and social contexts. It draws on an analysis of 24 problem-centred interviews conducted in two rounds about a decade apart on the same sample of child-less or free men. This approach is not usually applied in research on this subject. In the first interviews, the men’s narratives mainly reveal their different views on the impact the post-1989 social transformation had on their lives in relation to their perceived resources and life chances. The follow-up interviews show how the men’s views on their lives change with age, the different emphasis they place on free choice versus the effect of external factors over time, and the narrow line that they construct between ‘involuntary’ and ‘voluntary’ childlessness. The narratives of child-less or free men unveil that the norm of becoming a parent is growing weaker in Czech society, but age norms and the norms regarding pathways to parenthood are still strong. The article seeks to understand how Czech men construct their childlessness over time, thus contributing to the discussion of childlessness among men and filling the gap in knowledge on men’s childlessness in CEE.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-04465S" target="_blank" >GA17-04465S: Childlessness and one-child families: explaining the low fertility rate in the Czech Republic</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Sociological Research Online
ISSN
1360-7804
e-ISSN
1360-7804
Volume of the periodical
28
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
228-243
UT code for WoS article
000703193200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85116073677