Is Romania Going Toward the One Child Family Model?
Is Romania Going Toward the One Child Family Model?

Summary/Abstract: The fall of the socialist regime brought a dramatic drop in fertility levels in our country: from a (period) total fertility rate of 2.2 children/woman in 1989 to that of 1.3 children/women in 2004. Fertility in Romania decreased not because a significant increase in the proportion of childless women, but because the massive drop in second and higher order births. More and more, the one child family model becomes popular in Romania, in especially in urban areas. We may wonder whether the one child family would become the norm in our country, or the two or more children family would survive, especially in rural areas. We take a first step in the attempt to study this issue and analyse fertility intentions of Romanian women, in urban and rural areas. We made our investigations by means of logistic regression of data from two national surveys, both conducted in 2004:Demography and Lifestyles of Romanian Women and Reproductive Health Survey.

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