Elderly women living alone in Spain: the importance of having children.

Our goal in this paper is to analyse the extent to which completed fertility, and in particular childlessness, is a valid predictor of living alone at advanced ages, an increasingly important residential option in advanced societies with crucial implications for social policy design and the organiza...

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Published in:	European Journal of Ageing Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 311 - 323
Main Authors:	Reher, David, Requena, Miguel
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Sep2017
Subjects:	Spain Childlessness Demography Fertility Infertility Marital status Public welfare Social isolation Women Government policy Educational attainment Logistic regression analysis Psychological vulnerability
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost