The implications of marital instability for a woman’s fertility: Empirical evidence from Italy

Meggiolaro, Silvia; Ongaro, Fausta

doi:10.4054/demres.2010.23.34

Cited by 37 publications

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“…For instance, childbearing before marriage might slow marital fertility if women have already reached their desired parity. Conversely, children from a prior union could speed up marital fertility if women want to maintain short birth intervals (Meggiolaro & Ongaro, 2010). Another possibility is that premarital childbearing might not affect marital fertility if childbearing is primarily determined by the desire for shared biological children (e.g., Griffith, Koo, & Suchindran, 1985;Thomson, 2004;Thomson et al, 2002).…”

Section: -2002mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Decoupling of Marriage and Parenthood? Trends in the Timing of Marital First Births, 1945–2002

Hayford

Guzzo

Smock

2014

J of Marriage and Family

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Family formation changed dramatically over the twentieth century in the United States. The impact of these changes on childbearing has primarily been studied in terms of nonmarital fertility. However, changes in family formation behavior also have implications for fertility within marriage. We use data from ten fertility surveys to describe changes in the timing of marital childbearing from the 1940s through the 21st century for non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black women. Based on harmonized data from the Integrated Fertility Survey Series, our results suggest increasing divergence in fertility timing for white women. A growing proportion of marriages begin with a premarital conception; at the same time, an increasing proportion of white women are postponing fertility within marriage. For black women, marital fertility is increasingly postponed beyond the early years of marriage. Evaluating the sequencing of marriage and parenthood over time is critical to understanding the changing meaning of marriage.

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Section: -2002mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Decoupling of Marriage and Parenthood? Trends in the Timing of Marital First Births, 1945–2002

Hayford

Guzzo

Smock

2014

J of Marriage and Family

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“…Our study relates to the large body of demographic literature that deals with the fertility behavior of stepfamilies in individual countries (Beaujouan and Wiles-Portier 2011;Heintz-Martin, Le Bourdais, and Hamplová 2014;Henz 2002;Holland and Thomson 2011;Meggiolaro and Ongaro 2010;Vikat, Thomson, and Hoem 1999) and in a crossnational context (see, e.g., Henz and Thomson 2005;Thomson 2004;Vikat, Thomson, and Prskawetz 2004). It is also linked to research that has investigated multipartnered fertility -that is, the question of whether men and women have children with different partners across their life courses (Carlson and Furstenberg 2006;Furstenberg 2007a, 2007b;Manlove et al 2008;Scott et al 2013; Thomson et al2014).…”

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confidence: 96%

Social policies, separation, and second birth spacing in Western Europe

Kreyenfeld

Geisler

Castro-Martín

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This paper studies postseparation fertility behavior. The aim is to investigate whether, and if so how, separation affects second birth spacing in Western European countries.\ud This analysis makes use of rich survey data from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom, as well as from Finnish register data. We thus cover the behavior of a large proportion of the population of Western Europe. We also use descriptive measures, such as Kaplan‒Meier survival functions and cumulative incidence curves. In the multivariate analysis, we employ event history modeling to show how education relates to postseparation fertility behavior. There are large differences in postseparation fertility behavior across European countries. For Spain and Italy, we find that only a negligibly small proportion of the population have a second child after separating from the other parent of the firstborn child. The countries with the highest proportion of second children with a new partner are the United Kingdom, Germany, and Finland. In all countries, separation after first birth leads to a sharp increase in the birth interval between first and second births. \ud Our study is a contribution to the demographic literature that aims at understanding birth spacing patterns in Western Europe. Furthermore, we draw attention to the role of postseparation policies in explaining country differences in fertility behavior in contemporary societies

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“…This lends support to the commitment hypothesis. More recent support for this hypothesis has come from studies based on Swedish (Vikat et al, 1999), British (Jefferies, Berrington, & Diamond, 2000), and Italian data (Meggiolaro & Ongaro, 2010), to mention just a few. In all of these studies, the authors found that having children from a prior union did not affect the transition to having shared children in the current union.…”

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confidence: 89%