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The birth of the rst child is an important phase in the familylifecycle.
Most research and policy attention has tended to focus on the early stages of the housing and familylifecycle.
It is used throughout one's familylifecycle for consumption such as home purchase, higher education, health insurance and personal investments.
Since work and the inheritance of farmland were important ingredients of the familylifecycle, a brief description is warranted.
The changing familylifecycle.
The papers and discussions in this symposium concentrated on the earlier phases of the familylifecycle, on child-development, on adolescent maturity and on contraception and its consequences.
Social class, a powerful determinant of family behaviour at other points in the familylifecycle, is also likely to discriminate here.
Second, the control over reproduction and limitation of the family size has resulted in the shortening of the period of the familylifecycle occupied by childbearing and child-rearing.
We must take the individual and the familylifecycle into account.
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