Does Parental Investment Shape Adult Children's Fertility Intentions? Findings From a German Family Panel.

ABSTRACT: Parents can play an important role in the childbearing plans of adult children. However, studies testing whether changes in parental investment are associated with subsequent changes in fertility intentions over time are lacking. We investigated whether parental investment, measured as contact frequency, emotional closeness, financial support, and childcare, is associated with adult children's intentions to have a first and a second, or subsequent, child within the next 2 years. These associations were studied in four different parent-adult child dyads based on the sex of parents and adult children (i.e, mother-daughter, mother-son, father-daughter, father-son). The participants are from the German Family Panel, which is a longitudinal survey of younger and middle-aged adults with eight fo

SUBMITTER: Tanskanen AO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8253365 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature