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Spanish to English: The Fall in Fertility and the 'Child Gap' in Spain General field: Social Sciences Detailed field: Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
Source text - Spanish El siguiente paso para delimitar el déficit de natalidad consiste en estudiar los «deseos» de estas mujeres, es decir, en determinar quién quiere tener más hijos de los que realmente tiene. El presente análisis no excluye la posibilidad de que, ante el número deseado de hijos, aparezcan entre las mujeres los conocidos mecanismos de
elaboración de contrapreferencias adaptativas. Tales mecanismos sirven para reducir la disonancia cognitiva de las madres reales o potenciales que experimentan una cierta frustración ante el incumplimiento de sus preferencias reproductivas. Las mujeres que se encuentran en esta situación, haciendo de la necesidad virtud, redefinen sus deseos, reajustan sus preferencias y las ponen en consonancia con sus logros reproductivos reales.
Translation - English In order to work out the causes of the ‘child gap’, one must next look at the ‘desires’ of Spanish women, that is to say, to establish which women want to have more children than they actually have. This analysis doesn’t rule out the possibility that, when, for whatever reason, women are, or feel as if they are, unable to produce their desired number of children, they may adapt to their situation using a well-known mechanism, through the development of a counter-preference. This is a way for mothers or potential mothers to reduce the cognitive dissonance that they may suffer when they are frustrated at not being able to see through their reproductive wishes. Women that find themselves in this situation make a virtue of necessity, redefine their desires and readjust their preferences so that they correspond with the realities of their situation.
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