Extra-Marital Cohabitation and Fertility

Bibliographic Data

ID4267041
AuthorsHenri Leridon (Institut national d'études démographiques, corresponding author)
Year1990
Volume44
Issue3
Pages469-487
Publication date1990-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePopulation Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-4728 • E-ISSN: 1477-4747
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/759053719
OpenAlexW4247659602
LanguageEN
Citations received11

In France, as in many other Western European countries, attitudes and behaviour regarding marriage have changed drastically over the past 20 years. One of the major changes has been the increasing propensity to begin one's matrimonial career outside marriage: two-thirds of first unions begun in 1983–85 were outside marriage. A special survey was carried out at the end of 1985 to collect detailed information on life-courses for a sample of 4,091 women and men aged between 21 and 44 years. In a previous paper, we focused on the characteristics and on the outcome of first unions, with no account of interactions with fertility, which will be the guideline of the present paper

Cohabitation · Fertility · Geography · Population · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies

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