Divorce Children Get Fewer Offspring
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The later the divorce took place in childhood, the later they got their first child, the researchers say.
When the parents are divorced, the children will later have fewer offspring. This is shown by data from the Netherlands. The extent to which these results can be transferred to Germany is questionable. According to experts, one aspect in particular is crucial.
When parents divorce, this affects the successor generation: in the Netherlands, they have fewer children. Can the result be transferred to Germany?
For men, the number of children is reduced by around 13 percent, for women by about five percent, according to a research team in the journal "Demography". It analyzed data from around 1.75 million people born in the Netherlands from 1970 to 1980, and followed their lives until 2023. The main reason for fewer young people is the shorter duration of marriages and partnerships of divorce children, reports the group around Silvia Palmaccio from the…
Another central result: a divorce of the parents also significantly improves the marriage duration of the children. Data from around 1.75 million people were analysed for the study.
If you grow up as a child with divorced parents, you tend to enter into shorter partnerships and have fewer children.
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