Spéder and Kapitány (2009), instead, use time-dependent fertility intentions (i.e., intention to have a child within 3 years) and look at the realization of these intentions to investigate which micro-level factors are associated with a higher probability of postponing the realization of childbearing intention beyond the planned time span.
Prospective memory has been variously defined as "remembering to do something in the future" [25], "remembering to do something in the future without being reminded" [26], "timely execution of an intended action at some point in the future" [27], "realization of delayed intentions" [10], "memory for activities to be performed in the future" [4], "remembering to remember" [28], and so on.
Therefore, Burgess et al. (2001) concluded that this region supports the maintenance of the delayed intention in the context of OG task activity rather than target detection or actual realization of the intention (see also Okuda et al. 1998).
First, if individuals intend to have multiple children, the realization of this intention implies that a sequence of events has to occur; delay or non-occurrence of the first birth in the sequence will decrease the chances of having subsequent children and thus will make the realization of their full family size intentions harder to attain or even impossible.
So as long as it represents the realization of couples' reproductive intentions, a dip in the world's population growth rate couldn't be better timed.
Second, the realization of family size intentions will often depend on the occurrence or non-occurrence of events in other life-domains.
Given that having a steady partner relationship and having a steady job are often considered as a prerequisite of childbearing (Settersten and Hagestad 1996), delays and setbacks in these related life domains will influence the realization of family size intentions.
Some experience life events—such as finding a suitable partner and finding a well-paid job that favour the realization of their initial intentions, whereas others are not so successful.
The partner's fertility intentions also play an important role in the realization of an individual's intentions, since generally childbearing in advanced societies is a joint couple decision.
Unfortunately, something happened on the way to the realization of the First Lady's good intentions.
The realization of the film left Jenkins's large-scale ambitions at the level of intentions, but it nonetheless suggested a searching and distinctive sensibility that was exciting to discern.
