Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures and Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Fertility Change in North America, 1950–2000 17
7. Changing Children and Changing Cultures: Immigration as a Source of Fertility and the Assumptions of Assimilation 31
8. Using Infertility, Useful Fertility: Cultural Imperatives on the Value of Children in the United States 54
9. The Performance of Motherhood and Fertility Decline: A Stage Props Approach 70
10. Parenthood, Immortality, and the End of Childhood 92
11. Leaving Home: An Example of the Disappearance of Childhood and Its End as a Predictable Set of Uniform Experiences 105
12. The Disappearance of Parents from Children’s Lives: The Cumulative Effects of Child Care, Child Custody, and Child Welfare Policies in Canada 121
13. Navigating the Pedagogy of Failure: Medicine, Education, and the Disabled Child in English Canada, 1900–45 140
14. Pathologizing Childhood 161
15. Conclusion 177
16. Contributors 185
17. Index 189