title: [Medical-demographic and social-economic aspects in the emergence of families with few children].
abstract: A 10-year prospective study was undertaken of a category of 957 families, who emerged in 1990-1992, for the purpose of defining the factors influencing the shaping of few-children families: 276 (28.8%) of them had few children, 558 (58.4%), had an average number of children and 123 (12.8%) had many children during the mentioned time span. According to the results, a set of factors was defined accountable for few-children families with the key of them being: duration of education (34.1 and 40.2% for female and male, respectively); marriage age exceeding 25 years (47.1 and 51.1%); an unsatisfactory health state of marital partners and of their children, a high rate of divorces ((40.6%); poor material and dwelling conditions (69.6%); a low standard of social protection etc.
authors.forename: V F
authors.initials: VF
authors.lastname: Kapitonov
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004243:Divorce; D004493:Education; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012424:Rural Population; D012800:Siberia; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014505:Urban Population