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Why Are Canadians Having Children? An Investigation Of The Value Attributed To Children And Its Impact On Demand For Children, Melissa H. Moyser
Why Are Canadians Having Children? An Investigation Of The Value Attributed To Children And Its Impact On Demand For Children, Melissa H. Moyser
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Previous studies in the value-of-children tradition of fertility research have examined the effect on demand for children of subjective perceptions of a particular value, or category of values, of children to parents. In their explanation of demand for children, they do not consider the possibility of the relevance of multiple or diverse single-handed values of children to parents. By investigating the impact of a non-specific measure of the values of children to parents—the value attributed to children—on demand for children, this study implicitly takes into account all of the values of children to parents that may be implicated in demand …