Child Spacing and Family Size in the Netherlands

Moors, Hein G.

doi:10.1007/978-94-010-1966-8

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“…In the same marriage cohort, the average number of children among orthodox Calvinists was 2.66, among Catholics 2.53, and among the non-religious 2.38 (Frinking & Moors, 1976, pp. 85, 88; see also Moors, 1974). Although the non-religious have the smallest families, they are not overrepresented in political office in the Netherlands.…”

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Linking Birth Order to Political Leadership: The Impact of Parents or Sibling Interaction?

Andeweg

Berg

2003

Political Psychology

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Despite mounting evidence that first-born children are overrepresented among incumbents in political office, there is no consensus about the cause of this overrepresentation. Some stress the impact of differential parenting, arguing that the first-born receive a larger share of parental resources and have a greater need to live up to parental expectations. Others emphasize the interaction among siblings, arguing that first-born children are better prepared for power struggles, having experience both as followers and as leaders within the family. This study, using birth-order data for nearly 1,200 incumbents in various offices in local and national politics in the Netherlands, found more support for the parental impact perspective. Singletons were also overrepresented among incumbents, whereas middleborn children were underrepresented. The data suggest that this birth-order effect is weaker among younger generations and is more pronounced among women.KEY WORDS: birth order, political leadership, parent-child interactions, sibling interactions Ever since Adler (1928), scholars have put forward hypotheses linking an individual's birth-order position to a range of personal characteristics, including politically relevant traits such as intellectual development, a need for power, liberalism, and rebelliousness. There is now substantial and growing support for one such proposition-that birth order, and in particular being a first-born child, affects the likelihood of attaining public office. First-born children-those with one or more younger siblings-have been found to be overrepresented among U.S. presidents, British and Australian prime ministers, leaders of countries in all parts of the world, members of the U.

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Linking Birth Order to Political Leadership: The Impact of Parents or Sibling Interaction?

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Berg

2003

Political Psychology

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“…The successive fertility surveys in Britain [Cartwright (1979)] as well as surveys in such countries as the Netherlands [Moors (1974)] and the Scandinavian countries [Ostby (1981), Arvidson et al (1984)] show the same pattern. In this transition, chemical and mechanical barrier methods (condom, diaphragm, spermicides -and also douche) never reached high levels.…”

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The contraceptive transition in Flanders

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Lodewijckx²

1986

Eur J Population

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Changes in contraceptive use in Flanders are documented, largely though not solely using data from four surveys conducted between 1966 and 1983. Particular attention is paid to changes in the methods of contraception used. The contraceptive transition observed for Flanders is compared with information for other countries to assess whether a specific pattern can be delineated, Rksumk. La 'transition contraceptive' en FlandresCette note d6crit l'6volution du recours h la contraception en Flandres, principalement partir des r6sultats de quatre enqu~tes r6alis6es entre 1966 et 1983. L'accent est mis sur les changements de m6thodes. La 'transition contraceptive' observ6e en Flandres est compar4e aux donn6es disponibles dans d'autres pays en vue de d6gager ses particularit~s ~ventuelles.

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“…These authors concluded that the occurrence of DS is not related to the mother's age only but to the rank in birth sequence as well. This increasing incidence of DS in higher birth orders in different maternal age groups may be related to the gradually increasing percentage of unplanned conceptions, as has been shown in the Netherlands [32], Belgium [6] and in England [4]. In conclusion, the age-effect as well as the parity effect, often going hand in hand, may be related to the unplanned conception rate.…”

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The ageing gamete in relation to birth control failures and Down syndrome

1985

Eur J Pediatr

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Some indirect relationships between contraception failures and offspring with a pathological condition are reviewed, and a causal connection between them is suggested. This hypothesis is supported by the decreasing incidence of Down syndrome (DS) in general in recent years, and the increase among the younger maternal age categories as well as the effect of birth order. A more than doubled incidence of DS children among young Catholic mothers and the fact that conceptions of children with DS are preceded by unusually long periods of abstinence are emphasised and discussed. These data offer circumstantial evidence that the conceptions that occur despite application of the so called "natural" family planning methods in particular are at high risk. The impact of reproductive biological failures ("nature") and of reproductive behaviour ("nurture") on the human gametes can be disentangled by thorough studies of the epidemiology of major and minor congenital anomalies.

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Child Spacing and Family Size in the Netherlands

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Linking Birth Order to Political Leadership: The Impact of Parents or Sibling Interaction?

Linking Birth Order to Political Leadership: The Impact of Parents or Sibling Interaction?

The contraceptive transition in Flanders

The ageing gamete in relation to birth control failures and Down syndrome

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