In a new article with data from the Czech GGS COVID Pilot, Tomáš Zvoníček, Martin Kreidl, and Petr Fučík (Masaryk University in Brno) focused on partnership satisfaction and conflicts during the Covid-19 pandemic. They found that while the frequency of conflicts between partners did not change between December 2020 and April 2021, partnership satisfaction dropped significantly. While partnership satisfaction decreased for men if they experienced job insecurity or the economic impacts of Covid-19, the opposite was true for women.
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A significant decrease in short-term and long-term fertility plans occurred among young people aged 18-39 between 2020 and 2022, when the data collection of the first wave of the "Contemporary Czech Family" (Czech GGS-II) took place. In 2022, respondents indicated that they wanted to have a child in the next three years and in the more distant future less often than in 2020.
