Overview
- Analyses the one-child generation's childbearing motivations through a personal and micro-level discussion
- Discusses the life choices and trajectories of individuals in China's urban areas
- Explores individuals' experiences of the childbearing policy, drawing from 56 interviews
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This book dissects the reproductive intentions and behaviours of the one-child generation cohort in China, situated in the wider context of changing family life patterns and gendered lenses. Demonstrating that the one-child family is still favoured by the one-child generation, this book uncovers the socioeconomic dimensions and mechanisms of family relations underlying young people’s decision-making processes. It also incorporates individual considerations and experiences of childbearing from over 50 interviews to contribute to the development of China's social policy. Whereas men’s childbearing beliefs were relatively unexplored in the literature, the author included male interviewees to better reflect gender differences in relation to childbearing, employment and family. Analysing the relationship between life routine and the desire (or lack thereof) to increase China's population, the author argues that the current childbearing policy fails to accommodate theneeds and demands of young people, thus limiting the uptake of China’s new policy.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Shibei Ni is an assistant professor in the Department of Demography, Research Institute of Social Development at the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in China. Her research interest focuses on reproduction, family practice, intergenerational relations and gender. For her PhD research she was awarded the Research Mobility Program Award by World University Network (WUN).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From One Child to Two Children
Book Subtitle: Opportunities and Challenges for the One-child Generation Cohort in China
Authors: Shibei Ni
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-96093-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Limited 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-96092-7Published: 31 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-96095-8Due: 31 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-96093-4Published: 30 December 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 238
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Social Sciences, general, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Social Theory, Demography, Social Sciences, general