Introduction to Childbearing Intentions

The pandemic is causing social and economic implications and is also suggested to influence childbearing intentions and to induce a decline in the birth rate [1].

The realisation rates of short-term childbearing intentions are known to be consistently lower in post-socialist countries than in the rest of Europe.

Objective: We aim to investigate how the perceived consequences of COVID-19 affect people's childbearing intentions in Poland.

This study examined the factors influencing childbearing intentions among female employees of Department M in the Public Sector in China under the “Two-child” Policy Using a questionnaire survey and interview guide both capturing three dimensions that are individual basic information, actual marital status and family structure characteristics, data were collected from female employees of Department M in the Public Sector in China.

We conclude that the inconsistent questionnaire adaptation makes it very difficult to assess the role of country context in the realisation of childbearing intentions.

Given the changes in reproductive behaviors and the lack of accurate information about childbearing factors during the Coronavirus pandemic, the present study investigates the role of the COVID-19 pandemic in Iranian couples’ childbearing intentions based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB) model.

Ambrosetti, Novelli & Angeli: Childbearing intentions among Egyptian men and women 1230 https://www.

Results clearly demonstrate that those two capitals are different: Although short-term childbearing intentions are very similar in capitals and other parts of the countries, probabilities of realisation are lower in capitals.

Four parity-specific logistic regression models are applied to evaluate the relationship between the socio-psychological factors and childbearing intentions.

By comparing people in this age group to younger men and women, we investigate whether and how their awareness of the biological clock for childbearing affects their childbearing intentions.

Using data from two waves of the Generations and Gender Survey, we show that the division of work affects childbearing intentions.

Drawing on the literature linking climate conditions to rice cultivation in Indonesia, we use longitudinal household survey and high-resolution climate data to explore changes in childbearing intentions, family planning use, and births following community-level climate shocks from 1993 to 2015.

We use longitudinal quantitative data on contraceptive choice and use, and childbearing intentions collected in (up to) six interviews between entry into antenatal care (ANC) and 18 months post-partum from a cohort of 471 ART-initiated WLWH in Cape Town, South Africa.