Whether, and under what circumstances, people become parents has implications for
individual identity, family relationships, the well‐being of adults and children, and population …

How persistent and universal has the two child family ideal been in Europe during the last
three decades? We analyze responses of women of reproductive age from 168 surveys …

We study the aggregate gap between intended and actual fertility in 19 European countries
and the US based on a cohort approach. This complements prior research that had mainly …

In most parts of Europe, childlessness and non-marriage were common phenomena during
the course of the demographic transition (Rowland 2007), and contributed to the fertility …

We examine the use and value of fertility intentions against the backdrop of theory and
research in the cognitive and social sciences. First, we draw on recent brain and cognition …

FROM RYDER'S (1973)“cloudy future” to Lee's (1980)“moving target,” the malleable nature
of fertility preferences is widely accepted; however, tools for conceptualizing and measuring …

Objective: We aim to investigate how the perceived consequences of COVID-19 affect
people's childbearing intentions in Poland. Background: With the pandemic having an …

Interest in Britain in the causes and consequences of childlessness has grown since the
1980s in response to the increase in voluntary childlessness from very low levels in the …

The frequency of uncertainty in response to survey questions on fertility expectations is
relatively high. This is inconsistent with the classical rational choice model implicit in much …

Objective: The aim of this study is to extend our knowledge about uncertainty in fertility
intentions from a life course perspective. We want to find out if life course markers such as …