From never partnered to serial cohabitors: Union trajectories to childlessness

Why fertility has been declining in Finland after the Global Recession?

“…Jalovaara and Kulu 2018). A pitfall in gender theories is that the level of gender equality or equity in a society does not directly affect the fertility of those who do not find a partner (Jalovaara and Fasang 2017). The strength of social interaction theory is that it captures all four areas identified above.…”

Exploring the childless universe: Profiles of women and men without children in Italy

“…As higher education has become more prevalent the reproductive behaviour of highly educated women has become less differentiated from that of less-educated women (Burkimsher and Zeman 2017). Not having a partner plays a key role in being childless in all birth cohorts (Berrington 2017;Jalovaara and Fasang 2017;Rotkirch and Miettinen 2017). Furthermore, single status is more common in the youngest cohorts of childless people, especially childless men (Köppen, Mazuy, and Toulemon 2017).…”

“…Unitary insertion/deletion costs and substitution costs derived from state-transition rates (e.g., Aisenbrey and Fasang 2017) were used in order to uncover regularities between sequences and thus obtain the dissimilarity matrix, to which Ward's clustering algorithm was applied, which is a well-established sequence analysis procedure (see Aassve, Billari, and Piccarreta 2007;Jalovaara and Fasang 2017;Mynarska et al 2015). Both "stopping rules" procedures (see Calinski and Harabasz 1974;Duda and Hart 1973) and visual inspections suggested that the best solutions for both groups were six-cluster solutions.…”

“…The multiple causes of childlessness include several couple-related factors that apply across countries and genders, including late entry into union, union interruption, and lack of a partner (Berrington 2017;Connidis and McMullin 1996;Jalovaara and Fasang 2017;Parr 2010). Childbearing may also be affected by couples disagreeing on fertility (Tanturri and Mencarini 2007), or the presence of fecundity problems, which may be caused by postponement of parenthood (Letherby 1999).…”

Love. Break up. Repeat: The prevalence and stability of serial cohabitation among West German women and men born in the early 1970s

“…Serial cohabitation -that is, experiencing the formation and dissolution of multiple unmarried cohabitations -is thus of growing scientific relevance as more people enter more than one relationship in their lifetimes, while no longer being confined to marriage as the type of union they choose (Poortman and Lyngstad 2007). As a result of growing partnership instability and frequent repartnering, today we observe a diversity in people's partnership biographies that is unprecedented and fundamentally different from the firm sequencing of early and stable marriage with children that dominated people's life courses during the 'Golden Age of Marriage' (Dommermuth and Wiik 2014;Jalovaara and Fasang 2017). It is remarkable though, how little we know about the prevalence and stability of so-called serial cohabitation in the European context.…”