German Fertility Trends, 1933-39
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2200949 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Conrad Taeuber, Irene B Taeuber |
| Year | 1940 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 150-167 |
| Publication date | 1940-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/218563 |
| OpenAlex | W2039361771 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
National Socialist population theories and policies are intensification of elements already present in German culture. The policies with reference to fertility involve direct financial aids intended to increase marriages and alleviate the economic burden of children; honors, privileges, and advancement to those with children; intensive propaganda; and the enforcement of the abortion law. The crude birth rate increased from 14.7 in 1933 to 19.7 in 1938; the increases were general for all birth orders and all durations of marriage. According to Burgdorfer, approximately one-third of the increase of legitimate births in the Old Reich, 1933-38, was due to the increase in marriages, while two-thirds was due to an actual increase in marital fertility. The fertility of marriages with loans was higher than that of marriages without loans. It is impossible to disentangle the effects of the various elements operating to produce the increase in fertility; a decline in the incidence of induced abortions was undoubtedly one of them. The policies have been equally efficacious in Austria. The German rate is still a controlled rate, however, and considerably below that desired to maintain the increment of males nineteen to twenty years of age at not less than the increment of 1930
Abortion · Abortion law · Biology · Birth control · Birth rate · Demographic economics · Developed country · Economics · Family planning · Fertility · Geography · German · Political science · Population · Pregnancy · Research methodology · Sociology · Total fertility rate · Demography · European history and politics
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| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
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