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 …

The mission of UN Decade of Healthy Ageing (2020–2030) is to improve the lives of older
people, their families and their communities. In this paper, we create a conceptual …

Since its introduction in 1960, the combined oral contraceptive pill has become the dominant
reversible contraceptive technology for controlling female fertility in spite of early and …

The young adulthood years are demographically dense. Dr. Ronald Rindfuss made this
claim when he was Population Association of America (PAA) president in 1991 (Rindfuss …

The chapter addresses the complex interplay between the new roles of women and men
and the diversity of family life courses (focusing on heterosexual individuals) in advanced …

There is a long-standing debate on whether extensive Nordic family policies have the
intended equalizing effect on family and gender differences in economic outcomes. This …

Quarter-life crisis (QLC) is a popular term for developmental crisis episodes that occur
during early adulthood (18–30). Our aim was to explore what linguistic themes are …

Many authors have documented a global rise in singlehood during the past decades,
expanding beyond Western or industrialized countries. Simultaneously, the number of single …

More than 30 years ago, Elder theorised multiple life-course trajectories in domains such as
family and work, punctuated by transitions that create the structure and rhythm of individual …

Patterns of partnership formation and dissolution are changing dramatically across the
Western world. Some scholars have argued that women's trajectories of union formation and …