ArticleDemography2019
From Some to None? Fertility Expectation Dynamics of Permanently Childless Women.
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- Fertility preferences adjusted: reimagining parenthood in response to the uncertainty of infertility.Genus · 2025Article
- Perceptions of the Future and Pregnancy Avoidance in the U.S.Population research and policy review · 2025Article
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- Changing Employment and Work Schedule Patterns over the 30 Working Years-A Sequential Cluster Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Life After Loss: A Prospective Analysis of Mortality Exposure and Unintended Fertility.Demography · 2022Article
- Late fertility intentions increase over time in Austria, but chances to have a child at later ages remain low.Reproductive biomedicine & society online · 2022Article
- Neighborhood satisfaction and reproductive status.PloS one · 2022Article
- Women's contraceptive profiles in Burundi: Knowledge, attitudes, and interactions with media and health services.PloS one · 2022Article
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- Preferences, Partners, and Parenthood: Linking Early Fertility Desires, Marriage Timing, and Achieved Fertility.Demography · 2020Article
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- Pathways to Parenthood in Social and Family Context: Decade in Review, 2020.Journal of marriage and the family · 2020Article
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Abstract
Permanent childlessness is increasingly acknowledged as an outcome of a dynamic, context-dependent process, but few studies have integrated a life course framework to investigate the complex pathways leading to childlessness. This study focuses on an understudied yet revealing dimension of why individuals remain childless: stated fertility expectations over the life course. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort, I use a combination of sequence analysis, data-driven clustering techniques, and multivariable regression models to identify and describe groups of permanently childless women who follow similar trajectories of stated fertility expectations. Results indicate that a little more than one-half (56 %) of eventually childless women fall into a cluster where childlessness is expected before age 30. Women in the remaining clusters (44 %) transition to expecting childlessness later in the life course but are differentiated by the types of trajectories that precede the emergence of a childless expectation. Results from multivariable regression show that several respondent characteristics, including race/ethnicity, education, and marital history, predict cluster membership. Taken together, these findings add to a growing body of literature that provides a more nuanced description of permanently childless women and motivates further research that integrates interdependencies between life course domains and fertility expectations and decision-making of those who remain childless.
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