Analysis of Factors Influencing Non-Marital Childbearing among Women

ISBN-13: 9783659894442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 120 str.

Moses Festo Towongo; Kenabetsho Bainame

Opis

This piece of work is targeting students both at undergraduate and Post-graduate levels, population scientist and other stakeholders who have research interest in the field of family demography and population policy related issues. Therefore, due to gradual changes in socio-economic, demographic and intermediate factors affecting family formation, the relevance of marriage in egalitarian societies has been questioned.Thus, this book unveils the contemporary issues that will inform policy makers on family revolution that has taken place overtime.Besides, current debates on family formation are raised and discussed in detail based on different theoretical underpinnings such as Bongaarts, Social disorganization, Second demographic transition and out-of wedlock models which are applied and tested empirically.

O autorze

Towongo Moses Festo is an upcoming academic researcher with an interest in Family Demography. He holds M.A (2016), B.A (2013) and Diploma (2010) in Population studies all obtained from the University of Botswana(UB). He also holds a Diploma in Bus.Mgt from Botswana College of Distance and Open Learning(2009). He is currently, a PhD Candidate at UB