| Abstrakt: |
This article focuses on the postwar fertility, which will depend largely on first and second births. Its main factors will be those influencing lower birth orders. Factors favoring the decline seem to be decrease in the number of potential mothers, deferment in home maintenance, employment of women, migration to relatively infertile areas, family limitation and economic insecurity. Factors opposing the decline seem to be more married young people, shortening of academic training and propaganda. In 1940, there was a smaller proportion of women under 20 than at any preceding census. By 1950, then, presuming prewar rates were maintained, there will be a birth decline. |
