‘No, thank you, Mr Stork!’: Voluntary childlessness in Weimar and contemporary Germany

Voluntary childlessness is often perceived as a contemporary phenomenon. This article traces its history by looking at demographic data and visual representations of childlessness from the 1920s and 1930s. At that time, childlessness was on the rise among Germany's young urban couples – a devel...

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Main Author: Benninghaus, C
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of the Humanities 2014