Overview Chapter 2: Parity distribution and completed family size in Europe: Incipient decline of the two-child family model
By the end of the 20th century the two-child family became the norm throughout Europe. Between 40 and over 50 percent of women in the 1950s and 1960s cohorts had two children. There were some incipient signs that shares of two-child families were declining, especially in Central and Eastern and Sout...
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
2008-07-01
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| Series: | Demographic Research |
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| Online Access: | http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol19/4/ |