Disentangling the link between having one child and partnership trajectories: a mixed-methods life-course research

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13229400.2020.1839534?journalCode=rjfs20" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13229400.2020.1839534?journalCode=rjfs20</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2020.1839534" target="_blank" >10.1080/13229400.2020.1839534</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Disentangling the link between having one child and partnership trajectories: a mixed-methods life-course research

Original language description

This article explores the relationships between partnership trajectories and having an only child. Few studies have focused on one-child families, even though in many countries having just one child is the main factor driving sub-replacement fertility levels. Little is known especially about how non-progression to a second child relates to partnership trajectories. This article contributes to filling these gaps by using a mixed-methods life-course research. We combine sequence and regression analyses of survey data with a biographical analysis of problem-centred interviews with parents of an only child. Based on the Czech Household panel survey, we estimate the probability of having an only child in relation to parents’ different partnership trajectories after the birth of the first child. Analysing the problem-centred interviews, we explore parents’ understanding of the processes that lead them not to progress to a second child. Our findings indicate that having an only child is associated with partnership dissolution after the first child’s birth and with later entry into parenthood. High levels of education are negatively associated with the probability of having an only child among fathers, but positively among mothers. Partnership dissatisfaction and work-life balance issues contribute to non-progression to a second child.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-04465S" target="_blank" >GA17-04465S: Childlessness and one-child families: explaining the low fertility rate in the Czech Republic</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Family Studies

ISSN

1322-9400

e-ISSN

1839-3543

Volume of the periodical

28

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

AU - AUSTRALIA

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

1466-1487

UT code for WoS article

000584054800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85095725956