Description

• Title:
  Childlessness – choice, obstacles or coincidence? Qualitative analysis of the process of remaining childless
• Creator:
  Mynarska, Monika
• Description:
  Even though survey studies recurrently show that Poles want to have children and that parenthood is important to them, more and more Polish women remain childless. This discrepancy calls for a closer consideration. We need to understand a nature of childbearing desires and intentions much better and investigate obstacles which might prevent women from fulfilling them. In this paper, I analyse 20 in-depth semi-structured interviews with childless women aged 37–46. The qualitative methodology is applied to explore what preferences, circumstances and life-choices of the respondents have led them to childlessness. The respondents discussed several factors: A lack of a partner, fecundity problems, postponement of childbearing related to employment or life priorities other than family and childbearing. However, the results show that it is rarely possible to find a single reason for remaining childless, as various factors collide and interact in women’s lives.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2019 Family Forum
• Date:
  2019.04.25
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Family Forum; Vol 3 (2013): Family Forum; 55-77;
  Family Forum; Vol. 3 (2013): Family Forum; 55-77;
  Family Forum; Tom 3 (2013): Family Forum; 55-77;
  Family Forum; Том 3 (2013): Family Forum; 55-77;
  Family Forum; Diel 3 (2013): Family Forum; 55-77;
  2391-9388;
  2084-1698
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Redakcja Wydawnictw Wydziału Teologicznego Uniwersytetu Opolskiego
• Relation: https://czasopisma.uni.opole.pl/index.php/ff/article/view/887/678
• Subject:
  childlessness;
  Poland;
  qualitative interviews;
  childbearing desires
• Identifier: https://czasopisma.uni.opole.pl/index.php/ff/article/view/887
• Data provider:
  Platforma Czasopism Uniwersytetu Opolskiego
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text