"Who’s Gonna Pick Us Up.” The experiences of older involuntarily childless men

Hadley, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4254-7648 (2015) "Who’s Gonna Pick Us Up.” The experiences of older involuntarily childless men. In: Current and Future Trends in European Research in Ageing: 4th MICRA PhD Conference, 14 May 2015, Manchester, United Kingdom. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to examine the lives of older involuntarily childless (IvC) men. Research in the field of older IvC men is important, not only because of an increasingly ageing population and a declining fertility rate (Dykstra 2009), but also because of the lack of research material on men as they age (Dykstra and Keizer, 2009) Divorced and widowed childless men show higher rates of depression than same status women (Zhang and Hayward, 2001). Older childless men have smaller social networks and are poorer in terms of health, diet, self-care, and wellbeing than those married with children (Dykstra and Keizer, 2009).