NEPLÁNOVANÝ ODKLAD MATEŘSTVÍ DO VYŠŠÍHO VĚKU V ŽIVOTNÍ DRÁZE ČESKÝCH ŽEN

• Authors: Slabá Jitka , Kocourková Jiřina , Šťastná Anna

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Unplanned postponement of motherhood to later ages in the life course of Czech women

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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The postponement of fertility has been observed in Czechia since the beginning of the 1990s. This paper employed a mixed-method approach that focused on the various reasons for unplanned postponement. The survey data describes the quantity of the occurrence of unplanned postponement for declared reasons, while the in-depth interviews serve to describe the relationships between the stated reasons. The qualitative research confirms the expectation of the sequential characteristics of postponement; at younger ages, individually-motivated reasoning was found to be common, followed by partner-motivated reasoning and, finally, by health-motivated reasoning. Additionally, individually-motivated reasoning represents the postponement due to the re-evaluation of a plan, while partner-motivated and health-motivated reasoning can be considered as unplanned postponement.

Keywords

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FERTILITY POSTPONEMENT; MIXED-METHOD RESEARCH; CZECH REPUBLIC; WOMEN; MOTHERHOOD

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 49 – 70

Contributors

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Slabá Jitka

• Přírodovědecká fakulta, Univerzita Karlova, Albertov 6, 128 43 Praha 2, Czech Republic

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Kocourková Jiřina

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Šťastná Anna

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2021.53.1.3