This group includes stable couples in their first and only marriage; in more than half of these families, the spouses trust each other in everything. Nearly half of the couples have at least six children and one-third have seven and more. The average age difference between successive siblings is usually less than two years.
This group is very religious: more than half of the families attend religious services at least every month. Almost one-quarter of the women were rais! and socialis! in a religious background. However, only 11% of families in this group are clergy families.
For many couples in this cluster, having many children ‘runs in the family’ as they grew up with at least two other siblings in their family of origin.
Their socioeconomic status is not the best: less than 40% have higher !ucation, finances are limit!, and many are forc! to borrow to survive. Half the women in this group do not have employment outside of the home.
The main factors influencing their decision
to have a large family include their parents’ example and their own religious beliefs and lifestyle, according to the researchers.
It is no coincidence that 60% of respondents in this a clear instagram strategy should include elements like group are ‘reproductive fatalists’ who reject family planning and believe that in matters of having children, ‘one must rely on God’s will’.
In the context of an observ! decline of the traditiona
l family in Russia, such couples are ‘rare islands of stability which rely on a supportive social environment for survival’, the researchers note. Most respondents receive help from other large families how to have open communication and honest conversations and, in their turn, offer assistance to others: 90% of men and women in the ao lists group are involv! in at least one organisation supporting families with children. According to the researchers, ‘such families can be socially generative and capable of creating public benefit, making them donors as well as recipients of assistance’.
Marriages are as strong in this category as in the former group, but their incomes are higher, with nearly 28% of respondents happy with their financial situation — the greatest proportion across the groups.