Project Duration: 2017 - 2019
No.: 17-04465S
Abstract: The project aims to contribute to the knowledge on the causes, experience and mechanisms that underpin sub-replacement fertility in the Czech Republic. In particular, childlessness and one-child families will be studied as manifestations of sub-replacement fertility. The project uses a mixed-methods research design, combining secondary analysis of quantitative life-history data and conducting and analysis of biographical interviews. The quantitative analysis will uncover the factors preventing people from progressing to having their first child, and preventing parents from progressing to their second child. The qualitative analysis will explore how childless people and parents of one child experience and attach meanings to their reproductive trajectories. The qualitative research will include a longitudinal case study, which involves re-interviewing communication partners from a previous study. A merging of qualitative and quantitative data will provide a complex understanding of the low rate of fertility in Czech society.
Aims: The research project aims to enhance knowledge on the causes, experience and mechanisms that underpin sub-replacement fertility in a post-socialist context. In particular, it will study childlessness and one-child families as manifestations of sub-replacement fertility.
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Themes:
Gender, Parenting, Family
Contracting authority:
Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
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Related Publications:
Children of the state? The role of pronatalism in the development of Czech childcare and reproductive health policies
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Disentangling the link between having one child and partnership trajectories: a mixed-methods lifecourse research
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The diversity of pathways to childlessness in the Czech Republic: The union histories of childless men and women
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Gendered visions of family life and parenthood among Czech young people: restricted or transforming imaginations?
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Selective pronatalism in childcare and reproductive health policies in Czechoslovakia
Themes: gender, rodicovstvi, rodina, socialnipolitika
Factors contributing to unfulfilment of and changes in fertility intentions in Czechia
Themes: rodicovstvi, rodina
Negotiating Access to Assisted Reproduction Technologies in a Post-Socialist Heteronormative Context
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Institutions and Discourses on Childcare for Children Under the Age of Three in a Comparative French-Czech Perspective
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