Review of: Rabea Krätschmer-Hahn: Kinderlosigkeit in Deutschland. Zum Verhältnis von Fertilität und Sozialstruktur. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2012.

Authors

  • Tanja M. Brinkmann Philipps-Universität Marburg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/1051

Keywords:

Bevölkerungspolitik, Familie, Kinder, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

Why do German women and men not have any children? What role do socio-structural and lifestyle-related reasons play? Krätschmer-Hahn pursues these questions in the publication of her dissertation. Using a secondary analytical design, her quantitative study outlines many known as well as several new gender- and East-/West-differences regarding the factors for childlessness. The publication is able to convince the reader through its rigor, complex quantitative analyses, systematic elaboration of the current state of research, and through its linguistic clarity and splendor. It does, however, not answer the questions as to what extent childlessness and parenthood are really – as assumed – rational decisions and why childlessness in Germany is a phenomenon that needs to be explained at all.

Author Biography

Tanja M. Brinkmann, Philipps-Universität Marburg

Dipl. Sozialpädagogin, Soziologin M.A., Promotionsstipendiatin im interdisziplinären Kolleg "Geschlechterverhältnisse im Spannungsfeld von Arbeit, Organisation und Demokratie" sowie Referentin zu den Themenbereichen Sterben, Tod und Trauer
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Published

2013-02-20

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2013)

Section

Rezensionen

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