ROSTOCK, Germany, July 10 (UPI) -- The more unemployment rises, the fewer children are born per woman during a recession, especially in young adults, German researchers say.
Demographers Michaela Kreyenfeld, Joshua Goldstein and Aiva Jasilioniene of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, and colleagues said in the last decade Europeans age 25 and younger refrained from having children in the face of rising unemployment rates. The drop of children per woman was strongest for first births.