Whether, and under what circumstances, people become parents has implications for
individual identity, family relationships, the well‐being of adults and children, and population …

In what ways do childbearing patterns in the contemporary United States vary for white,
black, and Hispanic women? Why do these differences exist? Although completed family …

The recent proliferation of studies examining cross-national variation in the association
between parenthood and happiness reveal accumulating evidence of lower levels of …

Objective—This report describes current contraceptive use among women of childbearing
age (ages 15–44) during 2011–2013. Current contraceptive use is defined as use during the …

OBJECTIVE: This report presents national estimates of the fertility of men and women aged
15-44 years in the United States in 2006-2010 based on the National Survey of Family …

We study the aggregate gap between intended and actual fertility in 19 European countries
and the US based on a cohort approach. This complements prior research that had mainly …

BACKGROUND The long-term decline in cohort fertility in highly developed countries has
been widely documented. However, no systematic analysis has investigated which parity …

Despite a long tradition of studying the relationship between education and fertility outcomes
less is known about how educational differences in fertility intentions are formed and …

The ongoing transition to low fertility is, alongside the long-term expansion of life
expectancy, the key force reshaping populations around the world. It has sweeping …

Enduring and accumulated advantages and disadvantages in work and family lives remain
invisible in studies focusing on single outcomes. Further, single outcome studies tend to …