Mishtal, Joanna Z. - In: Demographic Research 21 (2009) 20, pp. 599-626
After the state socialist regime of Poland collapsed in 1989, the nation’s total fertility rate plummeted from 2.1 to … 1.27 by 2007. Simultaneously, Poland severely reduced social service provisions and restricted access to family planning … with small children are decisive in women’s decisions to postpone or forego childbearing. The case of Poland demonstrates …