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    ARMENIANS SHIFTING TO 1 CHILD FAMILY MODEL: RUBIK AVAGYAN

    Tert.am
    19.05.10

    "Five years ago I was saying that a shift is being made from the
    1-2-baby family model. Today I cannot even insist on that. It seems
    that the 1-child family model has started to be fixed. This will be
    too bad. If this eventually becomes fixed by the people, then nothing
    will be of help," demographic scientist Rubik Eganyan said at a press
    conference today in response to Tert.am's question about the situation
    with the average Armenian family.

    According to Eganyan today the state should encourage not the birth
    of the third but of the second child in the family.

    "Here we should at least try to keep the wealth [meaning the tradition]
    of [having] the second child. If we do not succeed in it, there will
    always be families that will have the third, the fourth child, but it
    will not be serious to solve demographic problems at their expense,"
    said Eganyan.

    According to the data provided by Eganyan about 50-55% of children
    born are the first ones in the family. It is about the 30% of the
    population that has the second child, while the families that have
    the third child, make a little less than 10% of the population.
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