, the most pressing fertility question is not numbers of children. It is instead the legitimacy that children may provide in …-marital fertility in mainstream Western Europe are the increasing demands placed on immigrants to pursue legitimacy in their … reproductive lives. The paper concludes that levels of fertility among immigrants are unlikely to assimilate to the national norms …

We examine the impact of population distribution on fertility in a nationally representative sample. We exploit … link migration and fertility: socialization, adaptation, selection, and disruption. Our multivariate analysis examines …

demography and socio-cultural anthropology and with their efforts to understand population processes: mainly fertility, migration …

hand, and the overall level of fertility, on the other, is not straightforward. In most countries, marriage rates and … fertility declined simultaneously. However, the aggregate relationship between marriage and fertility indices has moved from … the current low fertility level in many European countries. On the contrary, in European countries where the decline of …

The current total fertility rate in France is around 1.9 children per woman. This is a relatively high level by current … counterfactual test case for some of the hypotheses advanced to explain the current low level of fertility in most European countries … (delay in fertility, decline in marriage, increased birth control, greater economic uncertainty). France’s fertility level …

human lives, and the parties to the exchange are the kinship groups recognised in the society concerned. Fertility reflects … fertility patterns in Europe and beyond. …

partnership relations: Fertility outcomes remain to be strongly associated with the type of partnership and its development … partnerships, may therefore facilitate fertility decline in Hungary. The analysis is based on the first wave of the Hungarian panel …

fertility behaviour, and continue to do so today. The opinions expressed by social scientists in the first part of the 20th … personal well-being aspirations and job careers of women; (2) status anxiety parents feel for their children pushes fertility …

For nearly three decades, the total fertility rate in England and Wales has remained high relative to other European … countries, and stable at about 1.7 births per woman. In this chapter, we examine trends in both period and cohort fertility … and quantum of fertility. Breaking with a market-oriented and laissez-faire approach to work and family issues, the last …