the family of origin and the respondents own relationship history are included. Data of the third “Familiensurvey” of the … German Youth Institute, conducted in the year 2000, are analyzed for men in Western Germany. Under difficult and/or insecure … circumstances men delay their start of a family. Being not employed, being self-employed or working part-time is in particular …

The relationship between increasing women’s earnings and rising divorce rates frequently has been explained by the so …-called independence effect: If a wife enjoys a higher earning than her husband does, she gains less from marriage. It has also been argued … and divorce rates are high. Our analysis is based on a large register data set and intensity regression models. We found …

Partnerschaftskontext, in dem Kinder(wünsche) entstehen, vernachlässigt. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht anhand der Befragung von 2 ….793 Paaren im Rahmen der „Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics“ (pairfam) die Übereinstimmung von Paaren …. Betrachtet man Eltern und kinderlose Paare separat, wird deutlich, dass Elternschaftsabsichten von Paaren mit Kindern deutlich …

mechanism through which parents influence the choices of their children. We employ qualitative research methods and focus on two … characterized by a low pace in the diffusion of cohabitation. Earlier studies found statistical evidence of the impact of parents … regional contexts in order to analyze if and how parents intervene in the choices young adults. …

A growing body of literature looks at the consequences of family migration from a gender perspective. The studies show … that women’s economic well-being and employment suffer from family migration, which is usually stimulated by the career of … the male earner in the family. This study extends current research on the subject by examining the effect of family …

wird untersucht, in welchem Ausmaß sich die Frauen beider Länder in Bezug auf das Risiko, eine erste Scheidung zu erfahren … Gesellschaften Unterschiede bestehen. Die empirischen Analysen auf der Basis des deutschen „Family and Fertility Survey“ (1992 … religiöser Bindungen, den höheren Anteil von Frauen, die bereits eine Scheidung in der Elterngeneration erlebt haben und die …

show that those who cohabit prior to marriage have a higher risk of marital dissolution. However, once selection effects … are controlled for, the risks of marital dissolution for those who cohabit prior to marriage are significantly lower than … for those who marry directly. We show that strong selection effects relate to both cohabitation and direct marriage and …

premarital children. Families with premarital children definitely have a higher risk of divorce than do those without premarital … children. Producing a common child cements bonds in the family but as the youngest common child grows up, his or her role of … maintaining family relations weakens. Families with premarital children from the wife´s relation with another man clearly have a …

In this paper, we study first-marriage divorce risks in two cohorts of Swedish women, namely, those born in 1950 and … heterogeneity and second, we run the model with such a term. We have found a divorce pattern for Swedish women similar to what other …

. However, only few empirical studies have addressed the topic of re-partnering after divorce. This analysis uses data from the … Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) conducted in 2005 to study patterns of post-divorce union formation in Germany. Particular … difference how age at divorce determines re-partnering behavior. While women who are older at divorce experience a rather low …