Medical-demographic and social-economic aspects in the emergence of families with few children
Kapitonov, V.F.
Problemy Sotsial'noi Gigieny Zdravookhraneniia i Istorii Meditsiny 5: 11-13
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0869-866X PMID: 14661407 Document Number: 559040
A 10-year prospective study was undertaken of a category of 957 families, who emerged in 1990-1992, for the purpose of defining the factors influencing the shaping of few-children families: 276 (28.8%) of them had few children, 558 (58.4%), had an average number of children and 123 (12.8%) had many children during the mentioned time span. According to the results, a set of factors was defined accountable for few-children families with the key of them being: duration of education (34.1 and 40.2% for female and male, respectively); marriage age exceeding 25 years (47.1 and 51.1%); an unsatisfactory health state of marital partners and of their children, a high rate of divorces ((40.6%); poor material and dwelling conditions (69.6%); a low standard of social protection etc.