The pandemic of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) constitutes not only a sanitary emergency, but also an unprecedented social and economic crisis. It has brought about increased levels of unemployment, an economic downturn, and amplified uncertainty about the future. Demographers are thus monitoring how family dynamics may change in response to the crisis, as the deterioration of economic conditions, labour market uncertainty, general societal uncertainty, and negative expectations about the future have all been associated with delays in childbearing (
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