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... One objection to this equivalence could be that the transmission of religiosity weakens across generations. For example, it has been shown that in Austria in 2008, 71% of religiously unaffiliated persons had parents who were both religiously affiliated (Potančoková & Berghammer, 2014). Religiosity can also change over an individual's life course: many religious persons have a sense of belonging in childhood and at the age of retirement but not during adulthood (Potančoková & Berghammer, 2014). ...
... For example, it has been shown that in Austria in 2008, 71% of religiously unaffiliated persons had parents who were both religiously affiliated (Potančoková & Berghammer, 2014). Religiosity can also change over an individual's life course: many religious persons have a sense of belonging in childhood and at the age of retirement but not during adulthood (Potančoková & Berghammer, 2014). Other factors, such as belonging to a stepfamily or a never-married single-parent family (Petts, 2015) or even the deterioration of the parental relation or the parent-child relation (Leonard et al., 2013;Myers, 1996), might also mitigate the intergenerational transmission of religiosity. ...
Although the literature on the association between religiosity and fertility in European
countries is already quite extensive, studies exploring the mechanisms of action of religiosity
are rare. The main aim of this article is to study whether grandparenting is an intermediate
or modifying variable in the association between religiosity and the intention to have a
second or third child. One assumption is that more religious grandparents might put more
effort into establishing a positive family relation with adult children and grandchildren, thus
more strongly influencing their adult children’s fertility intentions. Using Generations and
Gender Survey (GGS) data for eleven European countries, we find evidence of a strong and
positive effect of religiosity on fertility intentions. We also observe that receipt of regular or
weekly help from grandparents positively modifies the association between religiosity and
fertility intentions, albeit only the intention to have a second child.
