Fertility Desires of Adolescents and Young Adults Living in Large Families
Fertility Desires of Adolescents and Young Adults Living in Large Families

The Role of the Family of Origin and the Cultural Stereotypes

Summary/Abstract: In our study, we aimed at examining the childbearing desires of adolescents and young adults livingin Hungarian large families. Two different methods were used during the dyadic data analysis. Onthe one hand, correlation between the fertility desires of siblings, on the other hand, the absolutedifference in the planned number of children was measured. The data indicate that in two out of thethree dyads of siblings, created by the order of birth, significant correlation can be measured.Pseudo-dyads were created in order to test if the above mentioned parallel data can be explained bythe similar socio-demographic characteristics of the sample families. The correlation disappearedin case of the randomly paired adolescents and young adults. All in all, family background is likelyto have a more important impact on fertility desires of youngsters than similar social environment.

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