Culture during childhood shapes family planning
Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 10:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Family planning is not just what we decide consciously as adults. Young parents are noticeably impressed by childhood experiences, as a new analysis on Turkish migrant data proves. Women born in Turkey who moved to Germany after entering school became mothers more often and at younger age than women who were born to Turkish parents in Germany. Both groups have children earlier and more frequently than Western German non-migrants, research shows.