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Exploring Older Men’s Pathways to Childlessness in Hungary: Did the Change of Policy Regime Matter?
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Abstract In many post‐socialist countries, there is a strong social ideal that, in order to live a fulfilled life, men and women should have children; thus “childfree” lifestyles are much less popular than in North‐Western Europe. In this article, we explore factors leading to childlessness among men who wer... mehr
In many post‐socialist countries, there is a strong social ideal that, in order to live a fulfilled life, men and women should have children; thus “childfree” lifestyles are much less popular than in North‐Western Europe. In this article, we explore factors leading to childlessness among men who were mostly socialized under state‐socialist conditions and in the subsequent transition period by analysing 30 in‐depth interviews conducted with heterosexual childless men over 50 in Hungary. Older interviewees who grew up in state socialism followed a standardized life‐course and went through the same life‐course events—including school, work, and, in some cases, childless marriages. However, the political change of 1989–1990 interrupted these standardized life‐courses. Our results show that, besides individual‐level factors, macro‐level factors connected to the political‐economic transition in the early 1990s influenced our interviewees’ pathways to childlessness. In this sense, we can say that the change of policy regime influenced these men’s choices, as in most cases there was a strong interplay between the individual‐ and the macro‐level factors.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Ungarn; Kinderlosigkeit; Mann; politischer Wandel; Lebenssituation
Klassifikation
Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Merton’s anomie theory; pathways to childlessness; post‐transition effect
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Seitenangabe
S. 138-148
Zeitschriftentitel
Social Inclusion, 10 (2022) 3
Heftthema
Fragile Pronatalism? Barriers to Parenthood, One-Child Families, and Childlessness in European Post-Socialist Countries
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)