Background It has been widely recognized that infertility and its treatment affects a couple as
a dyad. Given biomedical differences and differences in socialization processes and gender …

The negative health effects of water pollution remain a major source of morbidity and
mortality in China. The Chinese government is making great efforts to strengthen water …

How do we understand mental health problems in their social context? A former BMA
Medical Book of the Year award winner, this book provides a sociological analysis of major …

Prenatal maternal stress has been linked to multiple adverse outcomes. Researchers have
used a variety of methods to assess maternal stress. The purpose of this study was to …

Does the reason why women have no children matter with regard to level of childlessness
concerns? Reasons include biomedical barriers, situational barriers, delaying motherhood …

The number of older people who experience marital break-up has increased in many
Western countries. However, limited empirical attention has been given to the study of the …

Background Unintended pregnancies are linked to adverse parental mental health, yet little
attention has been given to this relationship in fathers specifically. We aimed to meta …

Though there are many inconsistencies in the literature, in market economies periods of
economic growth, ie, expansions, have been generally found associated with better mental …

In this study, we examine to what extent childlessness is associated with poor psychological
well-being in Europe. Moreover, we examine whether the relationship between …

Permanent childlessness is increasingly acknowledged as an outcome of a dynamic,
context-dependent process, but few studies have integrated a life course framework to …