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not play a very significant role in decreasing the birth rate. In addition, divorced
women continued to have children either when they remarried or as illegitimate
children.
The deaths, absences, and military leaves of men explain the variation in birth
rates. The absence of men doing military service, their return home, and the
rotating leave system maintained by the army are the factors that chiefly explain
the fall, rise, and general annual variation of the number of births during the war.
Approximately 350,000 men were called into service in the Winter War (1939-
1940) and stationed in different locations from early fall 1939 to early summer
1940. Approximately 24,000 of them died or went missing and around 60,000
continued to be stationed in different localities after the others had been sent home.
The sheer scale of these absences and their length explain the significant dip in
births in 1941, as many men had no opportunity to be with their wives or the
women of their home towns for the first four to five months of 1940. Meanwhile,
there were clearly fewer opportunities to get married among those doing military
service in 1940 when compared to 1939. Thus, the number of births declined by a
sixth overall.
The rise in the number of births in 1941 stemmed from the fact that most men
doing military service returned home starting in spring 1940. They returned to their
wives or started courting women in their home towns. In spite of the fewer
opportunities to get married in the year as a whole, most young men could court
women from spring 1940 to at least early summer 1941. As a consequence, the
number of births grew by a good third in 1941.
When the number of births went down again in 1942, the cause was the calling to
arms of nearly 550,000 men from early summer 1941. The extension of the
mobilization of young men significantly reduced the opportunities to marry for the
rest of the year. The inevitable consequence of this was the reduction in the number
of births by just under a third in 1942. The birth rate did not fall after this, as men
were both sent home during the phase when the front lines had stabilized and
others were somewhat regularly sent home on leave. These leaves enabled children
to be fathered, and as a result the birth rate increased by a fifth in 1943. The small
increase in the number of births in 1944 stemmed from the requirements for greater
numbers of men in the battles to defend against the massive Soviet attack of 1944.
When the armistice was signed on 21 September 1944, large numbers of men were
sent home again all throughout the fall of 1944. After peace came, there were again
many opportunities to marry. The number of births went up by a fourth in 1945.
The common factor in these variations is that foreign soldiers did not play much of
a role and did not fundamentally affect these swings. The main factor was the
absence or presence of young Finnish men among the women.
How many children were fathered by foreign soldier When an estimate is made of
the scale on which children were fathered by foreign soldiers, it can be concluded
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