This chapter overviews and clarifies various demographic aspects of fertility postponement: what are the main causes and consequences? It is shown that young adults have become much more autonomous in making decisions. However, making rational decisions about irreversible life events is far from easy. And more often than before union dissolution interferes before people have realised the number of children they want to have.
The postponement of childbearing is determined by societal factors and is related to the fact that i...
This paper examines the dispersion of fertility across age and time which has rarely beenstudied. Us...
BACKGROUND: Never before have parents in most Western societies had their first children as late as ...
Two decades after Aleš Hrdlička’s death the introduction of effective contraceptives broke the evolu...
In this contribution postponement behaviour will mainly be seen on the macro-level. One of the main ...
Transition to later childbearing regimes is a distinct feature of nations in the developed world. Si...
Abstract. Decreasing fertility has been accompanied with the rising age of mothers almost in all the...
This paper starts by reviewing existing projections of childlessness among British men and women. Lo...
Fertility rates in most developed societies have been declining at younger ages and rising at older ...
Fertility rates in most developed societi es have been declining at younger ages and rising at older...
Main trends are presented on fertility, age of the mother at having her first child, and time that y...
This paper questions the demographic consequences of birth postponement in Europe. Starting from the...
Having children is like investing in a risky project. Postponing birth is like delaying an irreversi...
International audienceHaving children is like investing in a risky project. Postponing birth is like...
Two decades after Aleš Hrdlička’s death the introduction of effective contraceptives broke the evolu...
The postponement of childbearing is determined by societal factors and is related to the fact that i...
This paper examines the dispersion of fertility across age and time which has rarely beenstudied. Us...
BACKGROUND: Never before have parents in most Western societies had their first children as late as ...
Two decades after Aleš Hrdlička’s death the introduction of effective contraceptives broke the evolu...
In this contribution postponement behaviour will mainly be seen on the macro-level. One of the main ...
Transition to later childbearing regimes is a distinct feature of nations in the developed world. Si...
Abstract. Decreasing fertility has been accompanied with the rising age of mothers almost in all the...
This paper starts by reviewing existing projections of childlessness among British men and women. Lo...
Fertility rates in most developed societies have been declining at younger ages and rising at older ...
Fertility rates in most developed societi es have been declining at younger ages and rising at older...
Main trends are presented on fertility, age of the mother at having her first child, and time that y...
This paper questions the demographic consequences of birth postponement in Europe. Starting from the...
Having children is like investing in a risky project. Postponing birth is like delaying an irreversi...
International audienceHaving children is like investing in a risky project. Postponing birth is like...
Two decades after Aleš Hrdlička’s death the introduction of effective contraceptives broke the evolu...
The postponement of childbearing is determined by societal factors and is related to the fact that i...
This paper examines the dispersion of fertility across age and time which has rarely beenstudied. Us...
BACKGROUND: Never before have parents in most Western societies had their first children as late as ...