Raymo, James M. (contributor); Iwasawa, Miho (contributor); … - 2008
relatively short and almost as likely to dissolve as to result in marriage. Life table analyses demonstrate that the cumulative … probabilities of marriage and parenthood are roughly similar for women who did and did not cohabit. The most notable difference is … childbearing within marriage. Taken as a whole, these results suggest that cohabiting unions in Japan are best viewed as an …
