Nearly every European country has experienced some increase in nonmarital childbearing, largely due to increasing … births within cohabitation. Relatively few studies in Europe, however, investigate the educational gradient of childbearing … within cohabitation or how it changed over time. Using retrospective union and fertility histories, we employ competing risk …

very low fertility and changes in family policy. Drawing on official statistics, survey data, and focus group interviews …, the analysis shows that the country’s decline to lowest-low fertility is primarily due to the postponement of or the … between low fertility and changing marriage patterns, contraceptive prevalence, and abortion. The author then reviews the …

understanding low fertility in this country, but that the role that family plays in a couple’s fertility decisions needs to be … understood in light of the wider context of normative influences on life-course transitions. While choices about childbearing … residential independence of the new nuclear family. The empirical data are 74 semi-structured interviews with women between ages …

ongoing changes in family and fertility patterns across Europe. It takes a closer look at the shifts in values and attitudes … fertility at later childbearing ages, and suggests that the transition does not necessarily lead to sub-replacement fertility … related to family, reproduction, and children, and their representation in different chapters in this collection. It re …

effects of family policies on childbearing and fertility. … the effects of family policies on fertility. Theoretically we employ approaches of comparative welfare-state research, of …-of-theart of such an approach. We present studies on the impact of family policies on Swedish childbearing behavior to demonstrate …

We provide a portrait of change in the family demography of native-born, secular Jews in Israel. We document that in … that secular Jews have consistently maintained unusually high levels of fertility relative to these national populations …, with the most recent data available suggesting that cohort and period fertility is at or above replacement-level. We …

interrelations between the family and migration behaviour of individuals in industrialised countries. We first review the life …-course approach and previous research on the interplay between family change and migration. We then describe the contribution of the … individuals simultaneously structure their family lives and residential trajectories, and thus shape demographic change in society. …

childbearing in post-Soviet Russia. We employ a combination of methods to decompose fertility rates by union status and analyze the … is not due to the changing fertility behavior of cohabitors, nor to changes in union behavior after conception, but due … and nonmarital childbearing has not changed over time; the least educated women have the highest birth rates within …