Intergenerational child care & fertility intentions : The Swedish welfare context

• Main Author: Pashalidis, Lukas
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen 2015
• Subjects: fertility intentions; intergenerational child care; work-life balance; family policy; welfare context
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-118881

Using the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) and ordered logistic regression, the relation of intergenerational child care and short-term fertility intentions is explored in the gender-egalitarian Swedish family policy context. Overall, receiving child care help from parents or grandparents does not seem to influence whether women or men with one or two children plan to have another child. The results support the Swedish public child care system's effectiveness in facilitating relatively high fertility and work- and family compatibility, while informal child care is at best complementary. Only women and men aged 18-29 years old with two children were found to be significantly more likely in having another child within three years when receiving intergenerational child care support.