If the desire to have children does not come true, there can be many causes.
You can find out the three most common reasons here.
Between the ages of 20 and 50, every tenth person in Germany is involuntarily childless.
This is reported by the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) in autumn 2020. The most common reasons for involuntary childlessness were the focus of the survey, which was carried out in August 2020 by the online medical practice Zava in cooperation with the market research institute Splendid Research .
In the study, 1,004 women in Germany were asked about various topics relating to the topic of “family planning”, including the topics of desire for children, artificial insemination * and contraception.
Unintentionally without a child: an overview of the study results
Between the ages of 20 and 50, every tenth person in Germany is involuntarily childless.
According to the BMFSFJ, for 39 percent of women and 34 percent of men in Germany, their own professional stress is a major reason for unwanted childlessness.
The postponed desire to have children changes the probability of having a child at all.
Every fourth woman in Germany (28 percent of 1,004 participants in the survey) can imagine artificial insemination.
The higher the income, the more women are interested in modern medical support when having children.
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Reasons for childlessness: When the partner is missing
A common reason for unwanted childlessness is, in addition to professional stress or social pressure, the (still) missing partner, as the Zava study shows.
Most women answered
why the study participants are currently deciding against
having
a child or postponing their desire to have children by
saying that the costs are too high.
42 percent of 18 to 29 year old women want to have a career and earn money first before starting a family.
However, according to the BMFSFJ, their own work-related stress is a major reason for unwanted childlessness for 39 percent of women and 34 percent of men in Germany.
In 2013, only 16 and 19 percent respectively gave this reason.
The Federal Ministry of Family Affairs also points out that one of the most common reasons is also the high social pressure
.
Being a mother and father is still strongly linked to one's own gender identity.
In the current study, 63 percent of women stated that "motherhood is part of being a woman"
and 56 percent of men “fatherhood is part of being a man”.
Another reason:
the right partner
has not yet been found
.
According to the Zava fertility study, 19 percent of the 608 women surveyed without children in Germany stated that they had not yet found the right partner.
According to the study by the BMFSFJ, 26 percent of unintentionally childless women and 38 percent of unintentionally childless men currently have no steady partner.
*
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