A growing proportion of nonmarital births are to cohabiting couples, though childbearing is
more common among moderately educated cohabitors than among cohabiting college …

Drawing on data from 2 waves of the National Survey of Family Growth (N= 11,065), the
current research addressed 2 overarching questions about the reproductive context of …

Most research on nonmarital births focuses on disadvantaged populations. This study
examined the childbearing expectations and experiences of a working-class sample …

While cohabitation has been increasing and a growing context to have and raise children,
there has been little attention to one of the key determinants of fertility and effective …

We have previously described the sexual experience of unmarried US teenagers based on
interviews obtained in 1971 from a national sample of 4,611 young women 15-19 years of …

Failure to use contraception is a critical problem among American youth, since sexual
activity is common, and illegitimacy and abortion rates are high among young women. This …

Many Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in the past decade have queried husbands
and wives about their current contraceptive use. In this study, couples' concurrence on use …

A 1979 survey among sexually active unmarried black adolescents from Chicago found that
28 percent of the young women and 18 percent of the young men used a contraceptive at …

In heterosexual couples, both partners' intentions to have a baby (or not) are associated with
the likelihood of a subsequent birth, yet most studies only measure women's intentions …

Context: Cohabitation provides a two-parent family union in which to have and raise children
outside of marriage. Little is known, however, about the conditions under which cohabiting …