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Parental effects continue to have a strong impact on family formation patterns, even though demographic transitions related to choosing a partner, entering marriage, and deciding in favor or against children have changed substantially in recent years. 75 percent of all children follow a pattern similar to that of their parents, have as many or about as many children, and have their children at a similar age. Anette Fasang and Marcel Raab, two WZB researchers in the project group on Demography and Inequality, studied the patterns of family formation among middle-class American families.