Vivir sin niños o vivir para los niños: una disyuntiva de las sociedades urbanas. El caso de Vigo

CARBALLA PÉREZ, Amelia
; LAMELA VIERA, Carmen
; LEAL FREIRE, Beatriz
; ROBLA SANTOS, Diana

Publication year:

2003

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

84-8419-878-2

ISSN:

1137-439X

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Summary

Along the 90´s, Galicia has kept some of the lowest fertility rates registered in Spain. Here we consider the main causal theories on fertility decline: those based on economic models and the second demographic transition theory. Finally, we defend an analysis based on the social significance of childhood. Although many support the idea that today cities are not organized nor equiped to meet children´s needs, evidence suggests that solutions may contribute to spacial and time segregation, worsening compatibility of the different social realms.