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Small Families and the System of Substitution

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The Declining Birth Rate in Rotterdam
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In the families where birth control is practised, the possibility exists that when a child has died another will be brought into the world more quickly than if there had been no death. It was also the object of this investigation to examine whether the families who deliberately restrict births really do apply this so-called system of substitution.

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Sanders, J. (1931). Small Families and the System of Substitution. In: The Declining Birth Rate in Rotterdam. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7559-1_11

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