intact families. Regardless of stepfamily status, timings and levels of fertility for second and third marital births are …This paper compares nonparametric fertility rates for American women in stepfamilies and intact families using data … identical for all women at the same lifetime parity. Fertility patterns are also similar for all first marital births, with the …

increases in the prevalence of step-families. Research on step-family fertility in several European countries and the United … several European fertility and family surveys show that previously observed patterns of stepfamily childbearing are replicated …

The simultaneity of decreasing fertility and changing family structures in many European countries has led to a growing … interest in fertility behaviour in its relation to different family structures. The growing prevalence of higher-order unions … (and the consequences for parity progression arising therefrom) is one example of an ongoing change in fertility behaviour …

considerable proportion of women form a stepfamily in childbearing ages, which needs to be considered in studies of fertility. … comparative picture across European countries on stepfamily formation. The present paper aims to fill this gap and provides a … use the individual-level data files (standard recode files) of Fertility and Family Surveys from 19 European countries …