Childlessness in the era of two-child families: Who are the permanently childless men and women in Czechia
Abstract
In Central and Eastern Europe, few of those whose reproductive years overlapped the Cold War decades opted not to have children and childlessness thus became a rare phenomenon. This is true of Czechia where childlessness in generations born between 1940 and 1965 never exceeded 5-6%.
In this chapter, we look more closely at this group of people who opted to remain childless in a society where people married and have children at a very early age and the two-child family became a general norm. Our analysis is based on the survey conducted within the scope of the project Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) in 2008.
Using binary logistic regression, we attempt to identify characteristics which determine whether a person will remain childless or not.