Les femmes ont leur premier enfant de plus en plus tard dans les pays développés. L'âge moyen à la première maternité a ainsi reculé d'environ 4 ans en Angleterre- Galles et en France depuis le milieu des années 1970. La diffusion de la scolarisation et l'allongement des études sont...

Union, séparation, nouvelle union : les comportements conjugaux en France ont évolué, et avec eux la fécondité. Si les naissances surviennent presque toutes dans le cadre d'un couple, marié ou non, elles sont de plus en plus fréquentes au sein des deuxièmes unions : c'était le cas pour...

Separation and repartnering are becoming increasingly frequent in France, reflecting a change in conjugal behaviour which is also affecting fertility. While almost all children are born to couples, married or otherwise, a growing proportion are born in second unions. Among men and women born...

In France, as in the rest of Europe, family trajectories have become increasingly diversified. How does childbearing fit into these more complex conjugal patterns? More specifically, what is the impact of repartnering on men?s and women?s fertility? This article attempts to answer these...

Childlessness, a driving force of fertility, has undergone strong variations in 20th-century Europe, and educational attainment has been rising continuously. We analyse how these two factors were related to each other over time. Our study is based on census and largescale survey data from 13...

Family dynamics are changing in Europe, but only few studies investigate how cohort completed fertility is affected by partnership behaviours and how this has changed over time. We use microsimulation techniques to investigate the effect of the increasing prevalence of union dissolution on...

Among living arrangements, living apart together relationships arouse curiosity on the part of sociologists, demographers and even the media. From a scientific point of view, how have noncohabiting relationships evolved in recent decades? How can we recognise these relationships, and who are the...

Childlessness, a driving force of fertility, has undergone strong variations in 20th-century Europe, and educational attainment has been rising continuously. We analyse how these two factors were related to each other over time. Our study is based on census and largescale survey data from 13...

Family dynamics are changing in Europe, but only few studies investigate how cohort completed fertility is affected by partnership behaviours and how this has changed over time. We use microsimulation techniques to investigate the effect of the increasing prevalence of union dissolution on...