Junge Frauen

Keddi, Barbara

doi:10.1007/978-3-531-92041-2_52

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“…Similarly, Aries (1980) argues that, since the 1960s, raising children is no longer the core aim of couples but is instead merely one method of potential self-realisation and self-fulfi lment within couple relationships (see also Zaidi/Morgan 2017). Keddi (2006Keddi ( , 2010 emphasises that this is particularly the case among young women, for whom a variety of different role models exist, ranging from the traditional homemaker to a focus on a professional career. Taken together, it remains unclear how close the link between early partnership formation and childbearing actually is.…”

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Is Early Partnership Formation Instrumental for Fertility in Germany?

Zimmermann

2021

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Using panel data from childless respondents of the German Family Panel (pairfam, n=3,802 respondents), this paper investigates whether fertility orientations (biographical orientations with respect to fertility) influence the risk of different partnership transitions among German men and women over the age of 18 (for n=14,572 observation periods between two panel waves). Significant influences are found for both gender and partnership transition types, and are generally stronger among men than women and for the transition to a coresidential as opposed to a romantic partnership. Uncertainty about anticipated fertility has a stronger negative impact on transition risks among men than among women. Results strongly suggest that the early stages of the partnership formation process are instrumental in terms of future fertility in Germany, at least to some degree. This indicates that a more comprehensive conceptualisation and analysis of fertility within the life course paradigm (as suggested by Huinink/Kohli 2014) should consider the impacts of fertility orientations on life course events in other dimensions, especially among men. Viewed more broadly, the results also underline two factors: the role of agency in coordinating life course dimensions in time and space in order to maximise individual welfare; and the importance of considering the impacts that anticipation of future life course events will have, as suggested by different theoretical approaches.

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confidence: 99%