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INTRODUCTION: A socio-demographic analysis of marriage and family requires conducting deep studies penetrating the essence of the processes among the population. The issue of birth-rate, as a basic factor that determines the reproduction of the population, takes a central position in the demographic studies. The study of the influence of the mothers' reproductive behaviour on their daughters' repro-ductive attitude is of an undisputed interest. This study deals with mothers' realized plans as a factor in their daughters' family planning. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study was carried out in 2018 through a direct group anonymous inquiry among 395 female students. The statistical processing of the data was made with descriptive, alternative, correlation and variance analyses. RESULTS: The students' reproductive behaviour is statistically significantly dependent on their mothers' realized family plans. Moth-ers' education and the real number of children are statistically significant factors for their daughters' views about the ideal and planned number of children. CONCLUSION: This study of the reproductive behaviour of the students advances the knowledge in the field by revealing that it is statisti-cally significantly dependent on their mothers' realized plans.
