French family policy has always provided specific support to families with three or more children, over the period 1978-1982 in particular. The authors discuss the effectiveness of this policy by comparing fertility at birth order three and above in France and western Europe and by observing...

France Prioux. Pre-nuptial conceptions by age of mother in France since 1965. The number of pre-nuptial conceptions in France in 1971-1973 was slightly less than one-quarter of the number of marriages. However, pre-nuptial conceptions amounted to 60 % of marriages in which the wife was 16-17...

Prioux (France). - The Ups and Downs of Marriage in Austria During the last 20 years there have been three peak periods in Austrian marriage rates, resulting from changes in taxation on marriage of single persons (1972 and 1987), or merely from rumours about such changes (1983). In the first...

Metropolitan France (mainland + Corsica) numbered 61.5 million inhabitants on 1 January 2007. The population grew at a rapid rate of 6.1 per thousand in 2006, thanks to a 2.9% increase in births and a 1.4% decrease in deaths. The number of foreigners admitted as residents fell very moderately in...

This paper observes the change since the 1970s in the proportion of men and women having only one child during their reproductive life, and examines their sociodemographic characteristics. The aim is to explore the significant variables of the complement of the parity progression ratio from...

Ce travail se fonde sur l’exploitation des enquêtes GGS menées en France en 2005 et en Russie en 2004 en se plaçant du point de vue des enfants. La comparai-son de la situation familiale des enfants selon leur âge dans les deux pays montre que les situations de monoparentalité sont plus...

Prioux (France). - The law and unmarried families in France In the eyes of French law at the start of the 1960s, only marriage and marital procreation were allowed to form a true family: children born out of wedlock were deliberately discriminated against and were only related to their mother...

Prioux (France). - Aspects of Family Formation and Illegitimacy in the Regions of Austria In Austria, the frequency of extra-marital birth has traditionally been high, but large local and regional variations have persisted to the present day. However, when all pre-mari- tal conceptions are taken...