Despite considerable economic and cultural change across Europe in the last 50 years, an ideal mean family size of 2 has persisted (Sobotka & Beaujouan, 2014). However, observed fertility levels remain below this. One of the most consistent findings in the literature to explain this gap is variation in male partner investment in domestic life, affecting both a woman’s intention to have a child, and her completed fertility (e.g. Park et al., 2010; Tazi-Preve et al., 2004). The novel contribution of this paper is to examine whether this same explanatory variable is associated with the fulfilment of intentions for a child. We use the Gender and Generations Survey across 6 European countries to explore whether the completion of stated intention for a child in the next 3 years among women was associated with the division of household labour. The explanatory variable was an index of the burden of 4 household tasks, developed using reports of how the partners divided these tasks. For those with children, an additional childcare burden index was created using 6 different tasks. We found some evidence among the whole sample that when the household burden decreased, the likelihood of intending to have a child increased. Furthermore, we found more convincing evidence that the same relationship existed between diminishing household burden and increased likelihood of fulfilling the intention for a child among those who stated a positive intention for a child in the first survey wave. Decreased childcare burden was also associated with increased odds of fulfilling an intention for a child amongst those who were intending for subsequent children. This project was designed and completed for the principal author's thesis at the European Doctoral School of Demography.