ArticleHuman nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.)2014
Grandparental effects on fertility vary by lineage in the United Kingdom.
Article in Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Widowhood and grandchild care: a longitudinal study of European grandmothers and grandfathers.European journal of ageing · 2026Article
- Adult Children's Timing of Entry into Parenthood : Parental Investment, Education, and Gender.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Grandmother effects over the Finnish demographic transition.Evolutionary human sciences · 2024Article
- From the Ground Up: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Past Fertility and Population Narratives.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- The Association between Religiosity and Fertility Intentions Via Grandparenting: Evidence from GGS Data.European journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie · 2023Article
- Childcare support and child social development in Japan: investigating the mediating role of parental psychological condition and parenting style.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Does Transition to Retirement Promote Grandchild Care? Evidence From Europe.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Association of Birth Order With Mental Health Problems, Self-Esteem, Resilience, and Happiness Among Children: Results From A-CHILD Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Does Parental Investment Shape Adult Children's Fertility Intentions? Findings From a German Family Panel.Frontiers in sociology · 2021Article
- Church attendance and alloparenting: an analysis of fertility, social support and child development among English mothers.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Article
- Living with own or husband's mother in the household is associated with lower number of children: a cross-cultural analysis.Royal Society open science · 2017Article
- The Reproductive Ecology of Industrial Societies, Part I : Why Measuring Fertility Matters.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2016Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Grandparental presence is known to correlate with the number of grandchildren born, and this effect may vary according to grandparental sex and lineage. However, existing studies of grandparental effects on fertility mostly concern traditional subsistence societies, while evidence from contemporary developed societies is both scarce and mixed. Here, we explore how grandparents affect the transition to second and subsequent children in the contemporary United Kingdom. The longitudinal Millennium Cohort Study (n = 10,295 families) was used to study the association between grandparental investment and parents' probability of having a new child within 4.5 years. Results show that contact with paternal grandparents is associated with higher probability of parents having a second child. In contrast, contact with maternal grandparents is associated with lower probability of having a third or subsequent child. Kin may have opposite effects on fertility even in contemporary societies, which may explain the lack of consistent effects of grandparental investment on fertility in previous studies.
Indexed as
Identifiers
24838742What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.