Nonmarital cohabitation and marriage are now fundamentally linked, a fact that is routinely
reflected in current research on union formation. Unprecedented changes in the timing …

Whether, and under what circumstances, people become parents has implications for
individual identity, family relationships, the well‐being of adults and children, and population …

This article argues that the trends normally linked with the second demographic transition
(SDT) may be reversed as the gender revolution enters its second half by including men …

Understanding how having children influences parents' subjective well-being (“happiness”)
has great potential to explain fertility behavior. We study parental happiness trajectories …

Nearly every European Country has experienced some increase in nonmarital childbearing,
largely due to increasing births within cohabitation. Relatively few studies in Europe …

Although cohabitation and childbearing within cohabitation have increased in Europe over
recent decades, the variation across Europe remains remarkably wide. Most studies on …

This study investigates the diversity in the meanings attached to cohabitation across Europe.
Utilizing a sample of 9,113 cohabiters between ages 18 and 79 from 10 European countries …

BACKGROUND Across the industrialized world, more couples are living together without
marrying. Although researchers have compared cohabitation cross-nationally using …

The ongoing transition to low fertility is, alongside the long-term expansion of life
expectancy, the key force reshaping populations around the world. It has sweeping …

The authors of two recent articles in PDR claim that Western societies are entering a new
phase of family life based on stable, egalitarian partnerships and rebounding fertility. This is …