This study investigates spatial variation in fertility in Europe. We analyse spatial variation in
total fertility rates using small‐scale geographical data from 21 European countries for 2010 …

Objective Undernutrition is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among
under-five children, particularly in low-and-middle-income countries. Since women …

Children require a large amount of time, effort, and resources to raise. Physical help,
financial contributions, medical care, and other types of assistance from kin and social …

One of the major corollaries of the post-war fertility boom and decline is that two-child
families became common across Europe after the 1970s. Despite the general agreement on …

BACKGROUND A long-standing and still unresolved debate has developed on whether the
historical fertility transition was caused by 'spacing'(increasing the time between births) or by …

This paper focuses on marital birth control practices c. 1955–1970, ie before the era of
widespread uniform adoption of modern contraceptives, in two nearby Swiss cities …

The study's primary purpose was to recognise the effects of determinants on the level of
fertility and thereby explain the differences in trends in the regions of Slovakia. At the turn of …

This paper is part of a research project conducted within the framework of the Sinergia Grant
nCRSII1_129922/1 and the National Center of Competence in Research 'LIVES …

Until recently, the public and scholarly debates on motherhood focused on issues of gender
equality and gender justice. The basic question of these debates was whether gender …

Cet article aborde la question du rôle des femmes dans les transformations des
comportements sexuels et familiaux en Suisse entre 1955-1970. Cette étude comparative …