Fécondité et dimension des familles en Europe occidentale

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Fertility and Family size in Western Europe. The trends observed since the second world war-i.e. the continuing shift to younger ages at childbearing; the increase in first and second birth order fertility, hidden by the decrease in higher birth order fertility - changed in the mid-sixties. Thus, among women born in 1945, who got married at early ages and in an overwhelming majority, the lowest rate of childlessness in history can be observed. They completed quickly their fertility, which a large part of them voluntarily limited to two children. For women born ten years later, a married couple with two children seems to be no longer a universal pattern: marriage and motherhood are rejected by some of them, postponed by others, who hesitate to have a second child. Furthermore, the stabilization of the fertility rates of third and later births could indicate the end in the decrease of large families, although most of the time at a very low level. South European countries follow these trends with a delay of five or ten years.
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