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Book SynopsisThis timely volume brings insights from multiple disciplines to bear on debates about declining fertility rates and modern approaches to child raising.
Table of ContentsIntroduction / Nathanael Lauster and Graham Allan
1 Fertility Change in North America, 1950-2000 / Mira Whyman, Megan Lemmon, and Jay Teachman
2 Changing Children and Changing Cultures: Immigration as a Source of Fertility and the Assumptions of Assimilation / Nathanael Lauster, Todd F. Martin, and James M. White
3 Using Infertility, Useful Fertility: Cultural Imperatives on the Value of Children in the United States / Rebecca L. Upton
4 The Performance of Motherhood and Fertility Decline: A Stage Props Approach / Nathanael Lauster
5 Parenthood, Immortality, and the End of Childhood / Nicholas W. Townsend
6 Leaving Home: An Example of the Disappearance of Childhood and Its End as a Predictable Set of Uniform Experiences / Adena B.K. Miller
7 The Disappearance of Parents from Children’s Lives: The Cumulative Effects of Child Care, Child Custody, and Child Welfare Policies in Canada / Edward Kruk
8 Navigating the Pedagogy of Failure: Medicine, Education, and the Disabled Child in English Canada, 1900-45 / Mona Gleason
9 Pathologizing Childhood / Anita Ilta Garey
Conclusion: From Children to Child: Ending in China / Jing Zhao, Nathanael Lauster, and Graham Allan
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