Martin, Claude; Thery, Irene - 2001
Change in marriage and cohabitation began in France thirty years ago. 2.5 million cohabiting couples and more than 40 … percent of births outside marriage reveals not only a new acceptability of cohabitation and family formation out of wedlock …, but a new social signification of marriage itself. In this paper, we analyze what appears to have been a "soft" revolution …
