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COUPLE FORMATION AND FERTILITY

COUPLE FORMATION AND FERTILITY. ASKING PEOPLE ABOUT FAMILY PLANNING. Tina Gudrun Jensen, SFI Mai Heide Ottosen, SFI Sofie Skovdal Mouritzen, SFI Reassses workshop, 26-27 November 2009, SFI. AIM OF THE PRESENTATION.

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COUPLE FORMATION AND FERTILITY

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  1. COUPLE FORMATION AND FERTILITY ASKING PEOPLE ABOUT FAMILY PLANNING Tina Gudrun Jensen, SFI Mai Heide Ottosen, SFI Sofie Skovdal Mouritzen, SFI Reassses workshop, 26-27 November 2009, SFI

  2. AIM OF THE PRESENTATION • Preliminary results from our research project on couple formation and mating strategies and transition to parenthood • With special focus on temporal aspects of the processes of mating and parenting. TITEL

  3. Age for childbirth (women 1. child, women all, men) TITEL

  4. AIM OF THE RESEARCH PROJECT Explain why Danish men and women postpone family formations. Analytical focus: How social processes and rationales affect couple formation and fertility behaviour. Research questions: What expectations, possibilities and barriers do young adults experience in relation to family formation, i.e. choice of partner and birth of the first child?

  5. HYPOTHESIS DIFFERENT FACTORS MAY HAVE AN INFLUENCE ON THE TIMING OF THE FIRST CHILD AND SPACING BETWEEN SUBSEQUENT CHILDREN: Education. Economic and housing conditions. Cultural norms on the “right” age for having children. Subjective experiences of “readiness”, e.g. psychological and biological dimensions.

  6. METHOD STRATEGY FOR SAMPLING

  7. TITEL

  8. AGE NORMS Family and friends´ expectations and pressures Differences between groups in relation to fulfillment of age norms Biology as problem; awareness of body´s decline Panic stories in couple and family formation

  9. OBSTACLES Education as postponing factor; transition from education to work; work as determining factor for micro “planning,” “strategy of optimization” in both work and family planning. Work and lifestyle: long working days affect ways of living. Economical conditions are not determining factors. Yet, living space as determining the amount of children. The extended youth - fear of commitment – as an intervening factor.

  10. MANOEUVRINGS:EXAMPLES Manipulating with age and time by postponing the age for childbirth Postponing adulthood and ignoring the facts of biology Changing the “traditional” gender roles by bestowing the role of parenthood to the husband, e.g. by demanding that he reduces his working hours and takes parental leave. Self-centred view on how much children should influence/change ones life. Children should not disturb ones love life.

  11. SIDE MED SØJLEDIAGRAM TITEL

  12. OVERSKRIFT I HVID PÅ FARVET BAGGRUND Baggrundsfarven kan frit vælges blandt farverne i standardfarvepaletterne, men brug kun én farve ud over hvid og evt. en gråtone i hver præsentation. TITEL

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