Unwanted Childbearing and Child Nutritional Status in the Western Balkan Roma Communities

Jelena Čvorović is Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnography, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She has a PhD in Anthropology from the Arizona State University, USA. She is the author of Roast Chicken and Other Gypsy Stories (2010, Hamburg: Peter Lang) and co-author (with Dr Kathryn Coe) of Storytelling around the World: Folktales, Narrative Rituals and Oral Traditions (2022, ABC Clio). She has also published journal articles and book chapters on life history, and maternal and child health.

• Introduction.- Parental investment theory.- Unwanted childbearing.- Roma in Europe and the Balkans.- Methodology of research.- Results and discussion.- Conclusion.