期刊名称:Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice about Men as Fathers
印刷版ISSN:1933-026X
出版年度:2011
卷号:9
期号:1
出版社:Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice about Men as Fathers
摘要:This paper demonstrates that education influences men’s childbearing behaviour in multiple ways. Focusing particularly on childlessness and multipartner fertility, key elements in our analyses are factors related to a man’s capacity for economic and practical parenting, reflected e.g. through income prospects, job-security, job-flexibility and the gender-composition of the job. Our data covers all men living in Norway during 1970-2006 which allows for a detailed analysis of diversity along a wide range of different educational groups and cohorts. Childlessness among men is most pronounced among those with low education and least pronounced among those with high education, but at a given educational level, we also observe sharp contrasts between men within different fields of education. The educational pattern of multi-partner fertility is different from childlessness, as the propensity to have children with more than one woman is most pronounced among those with low education.