The childless marriage : an exploratory study of couples who do not want children /

Campbell traces, describes, and analyzes voluntary childlessness in order ``to give childless couples . . . a long overdue opportunity to speak for themselves.'' This is accomplished through the liberal use of quotes from unstructured tape-recorded interviews with 78 individuals representing 44 marriages in a large Scottish city. The somewhat different life experiences and jargon detract from the book's usefulness to U.S. readers. Campbell attempts to find out ``how the desire to remain childless emerged and was translated into action.'' She presents a good overview of the literature available on this topic. Primarily for undergraduate students of sociology. Susan McBride, Northeast Texas Community Coll. L.R.C., Mt. Pleasant (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.