The Retreat from Marriage and Parenthood

Part I. Reasons, Views, and Values Toward Marriage

Chapter 1. Challenges and Choices: Unveiling the Motivators Behind Delayed Marriage in Iran; Milad Bagi

Chapter 2. Understanding the Cognitive and Emotional Processes of Singles from the Perspective of Attachment Theory; Lucija Sutic, Karmen Korda Orlovic, Matea Sostaric, and Margareta Jelic

Chapter 3. Transforming Marriage Purpose in Contemporary China: The Role of Cohort and College Education; Yiqing Gan and Wenjing Qin

Chapter 4. It's About Survivors, Not Sex: Exploring Future Aspirations of Undergraduate Survivors of Sexual Assault; Ioana Podarita and Christina L. Scott

Part II. Reasons, Views, and Values Toward Parenthood

Chapter 5. Reasons, Views, and Values Toward Becoming a Parent: A Mixed Method Examination; Brittany Stahnke, Morgan Cooley, and Amy Blackstone

Chapter 6. Subjective Evaluations of Personal and Public Well-Being and Expected Future Childbearing; Karen Benjamin Guzzo and Sarah R. Hayford

Chapter 7. Understanding the Lowest-low Fertility of Contemporary China: The Multidimensional Reproductive Beliefs among Chinese Youth; Ting Li

Chapter 8. (De)Coupling of Marriage and Fertility Intentions: Evidence from a Survey of College Students in China; Zheng Mu, Mengxin Shi, Yu Zhao, and Chan Zhang

Chapter 9. "I'll take one for the team": Individual and Couple-Level Decisions about Sterilization; Sharon Sassler, Amanda Jayne Miller, and Katharina Geppert

Part III. Diversity in Marriage and Parenthood

Chapter 10. Single But Not Singular: Exploring the Diverse Realities of Singleness in Indonesia; Karel Karsten Himawan and Christina Claudia

Chapter 11. Navigating Romance: The Enduring Challenges of College-Educated Black Women; Sarah Adeyinka-Skold and Austin Colby Guy Lee

Chapter 12. Trends in Cohabitation and Marriage by Experience of Economic Vulnerability in the United States; Margaret Gough Courtney

Chapter 13. Moving together or Living apart: Cross-border Couples between Hong Kong and Shenzhen under the COVID-19 Pandemic; Xinyu Shi and Jing Song

Chapter 14. Gendered Employment Realities in Dual Earner Couples: A Framework for Understanding the Differential Effects of Earning Levels for Evaluations of Mothers and Fathers; Ziding Shen and Jody Clay-Warner