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💻 NEW VIDEO - last week, Julia Behrman from Northwestern University delivered our #CPCCGWebinar, exploring changing norms around having #children

She discussed how having children is no longer seen as something everyone is expected to do, but more as optional and contingent shaped by circumstances

https://youtu.be/qXziDL3gWFM?si=ZI-tVwdA6mo0FIF_

#demography #sociology #fertility #childbearing #family #population #socialtrends #gender #relationships #marriage #parenthood #lifechoices #society #economics #birthrates

Mapping the strength & character of the norm to have children: Evidence from the US - Julia Behrman

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Centre for Population Change Mar 19

RE: https://sciences.social/@CPCpopulation/116221218684816460

🕒 Come along at 3pm TODAY (UK time) to our #CPCCGWebinar with Julia Behrman of @northwesternu. Julia will explore how shifting norms around having #children, measured through a new #US #surveyexperiment, reveal growing ambiguity and #individualisation in #childbearing expectations. Register to join online - all welcome: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/event_calendar/956/CPC_CG_Webinar__Julia_Behrman

Centre for Population Change Mar 13

🧑‍🏫 Join us next week on 19 March for our #CPCCGWebinar with Julia Behrman of @northwesternu.

Julia will discuss mapping the strength and character of the norm to have #children, drawing on evidence from the #US.

Join us online - register at: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/event_calendar/956/CPC_CG_Webinar__Julia_Behrman

#fertilitydecline #demography #childbearing #populationchange #lowfertility #socialscience #reproductivebehaviour #USresearch #families #populationstudies

Marco Albertini Jan 4

scienmag.com/unequal-chil... #childbearing #uncertainty

Unequal Childbearing Amid Labo...

Unequal Childbearing Amid Labor Market Uncertainty in Europe

In an era marked by economic turbulence and shifting social landscapes, the decision to have children is far from uniform across different segments of society. A groundbreaking study by Comolli and

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Marco Albertini Dec 30

How does uncertainty - at micro, meso and macro level - affects childbearing behaviour? (with @[email protected] ) just out! #childbearing #uncertainty #mesolevel #sociallocation #demography #sociology

The unequal childbearing respo...

The unequal childbearing response to labor market uncertainty in Europe: the role of social location, between macro and micro effects

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 10

A quotation from Orwell

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. It has to demand faultless discipline and self-sacrifice, it must expect its subjects to work hard, pay their taxes, and be faithful to their wives, it must assume that men think it glorious to die on the battlefield and women want to wear themselves out with child-bearing. The whole of what one may call official literature is founded on such assumptions.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1941-09), “The Art of Donald McGill,” Horizon Magazine

More info about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/79598/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #hardwork #childbearing #culture #discipline #fidelity #inculcation #indoctrination #literature #parenting #propaganda #selfsacrifice #socialorder #society #taxes #valor #war #work

Essay (1941-09), "The Art of Donald McGill," Horizon Magazine - Orwell, George | WIST Quotations

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Centre for Population Change Sep 11, 2025

📕 New paper by CPC-CG's Vincent Ramos 👇

Examines #childbearing decisions in societies experiencing declining #birthrates - how might worries about #caring for #ageing parents and job insecurity affect expectations around starting a #family?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11113-025-09969-9

#demography #socialsciences #fertility #familyplanning #experimentalsurvey #Germany #surveydata

Centre for Population Change Sep 4, 2025

📌 New opportunity to work on the MigrantLife and CPC-CG projects at the University of St Andrews

#Postdoctoral #ResearchFellow to work on #family and #housing projections using #microsimulation

Apply by 1 October: https://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/5839/0/456726/889/research-fellow-or-research-assistant-ar2690

#demography #socialsciences #migration #geography #partnership #childbearing #homeownership #jobs #vacancies #researchjob #researchassistant #migrantlife #standrews #forecasting

Centre for Population Change Aug 11, 2025

🌐 For this year's #WorldPopulationDay, we reported on some of our research which provides a detailed picture of how #economic, #social and #policy factors interact to shape #fertility and #family choices.

Read the full story in #ChangingPopulations (section 5): https://sway.cloud.microsoft/urKHaLPBnmc5tC1p?ref=Link

#population #demography #socialscience #childbearing #sociology #genderequality #childcare #housing #economy #families #youngpeople #generations #futuregenerations #jobsecurity #childcarecosts #childfree