Session 117:
Transition to Motherhood
Chair: Stephanie J. Ventura, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Discussant: Susan F. Newcomer, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), NIH
Labour-Market Attachment and Entry into Parenthood: The Experience of Immigrant Women in Sweden Gunnar Andersson, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Kirk A. Scott, Lund University
What Women Want: Antecedent Conditions for the Initiation of Childbearing Rosangela Merlo, Australian National University
Desperately Seeking Susan or Johnny: Transitions to Motherhood for Infertile Women Elizabeth H. Stephen, Georgetown University
Is the United States a Pro-Natalist Destination? A New Look at the Recent Fertility of American Immigrants Gray Swicegood, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Michael Sobczak, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Hiromi Ishizawa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Gillian Stevens, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Eileen Diaz McConnell, Indiana University
Other sessions on Fertility, Family Planning and Reproductive Health