The effect of postponement of first motherhood on permanent involuntary childlessness and total fertility rate in six European countries since the 1970s

Human Reproduction

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1179-1183

  Te Velde, Egbert ^a,b   Habbema, Dik ^a   Leridon, Henri ^c,d   Eijkemans, Marinus ^e  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL D'ÉTUDES DÉMOGRAPHIQUES   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

assisted reproduction; epidemiology; infertility; mathematical modelling

Indexed keywords

CHILDLESSNESS; EUROPE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; PERMANENT INVOLUNTARY CHILDLESSNESS; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; REVIEW;

EID: 84858392732     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/der455     Document Type: Review

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