Increasing Fertility in Cohabiting Unions
Evidence for the Second Demographic Transition in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10967692 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Kelly Raley (0000-0002-7734-6179, The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59 |
| Publication date | 2001-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Demography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3088288 |
| OpenAlex | W4231785246 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
As cohabitation becomes increasingly common and accepted, one might expect the meaning of this arrangement to change. In some countries in Europe (e.g., Sweden), as cohabitation became more prevalent, it moved from a deviant status to an acceptable alternative to marriage. Will the same thing happen in the United States? To investigate this question, I examine increases in the proportion of births occurring in cohabiting unions, using data from the 1987–1988 National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) and the1995 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). The standardization and decomposition procedure shows that most of the growth in the proportion of births to cohabitors is the result of increases in the proportion of women cohabiting, rather than changes in union formation behaviors surrounding pregnancies
Cohabitation · Current Population Survey · Demographic economics · Demographic transition · Developed country · Economics · Family planning · Fertility · Geography · Meaning (existential · National Survey of Family Growth · Political science · Population · Research methodology · Sociology · Survey data collection · Transition (genetics · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2019 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |