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| Cohabitation and divorce across nations and generations | | Author(s) | Kathleen Kiernan |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | STICERD, London, 2003 |
| Pages | 36 pp (CASEpaper 65) |
| Source | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. |
| Keywords | Parents ; Divorce ; Children [offspring] ; Personal relationships ; Living patterns ; Comparison ; Longitudinal surveys ; Europe ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Parental divorce has been an increasing experience amongst the generations of children born since the 1970s in European countries. This study analyses data on the partnership and parenthood behaviour of those children who experienced parental separation during childhood for nine Western European nations, as well as the UK and the US. Across all nations, the hallmark of the adult demographic behaviour of children who experienced parental divorce (compared to those who did not) are that they are more likely to form partnerships and to become parents at a young age; they are more likely to opt for cohabitation over marriage; they are less likely to have their first child within marriage; and their own partnerships and marriages are in turn more likely to terminate. Recently available data from the 1970 cohort was also used to search for previous factors that might throw light on why the partnership and parenthood behaviour of children who had experienced parental separation might differ from their peers without such an experience. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030513211 B |
| Classmark | SR: SOH: SS: DS: K7: 48: 3J: 74: 7T |
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