of fertility postponement. After unification, fertility rates plummeted in the former East Germany to record low levels …. The number of births per year fell 60 percent. The period total fertility rate (TFR) reached a low of 0.8. Since the … middle of the 1990s, however, period fertility rates have been rising in East Germany, in contrast to the nearly constant …

This paper studies the short-term fertility intentions of women and men and their subsequent behavior. On the one hand …, the predictive strength of fertility intentions is of interest. On the other hand, the most important determinants that … inhibit or enable the realization of fertility intentions are analyzed. Data from the first three waves of the German Family …

increases in the prevalence of step-families. Research on step-family fertility in several European countries and the United … several European fertility and family surveys show that previously observed patterns of stepfamily childbearing are replicated …

Against a backdrop of two new developments in the fertility behavior of the Mexican- Origin population in the U.S., the … present discussion will update contemporary Mexican-Origin fertility patterns and address several theoretical weaknesses in … the current approach to minority group fertility. Data come from six national surveys (three from Mexico and three from …

Germany is a low-fertility country with a rapidly ageing population, and will remain so for the foreseeable future … policy is considered to be a failure in terms of its influence on fertility. German family policy has had a traditional …