Two period measures for comparing the fertility of marriage and cohabitation

Laplante, Benoı̂t; Fostik, Ana Laura

doi:10.4054/demres.2015.32.14

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“…Furthermore, within this population and over the last decades, unmarried cohabitation has become a mainstream context for family formation (Laplante and Fostik 2015a;2015b). Although recent research suggests that the difference in the hazard of breakdown between marriage and unmarried cohabitation decreased over the last decades in Quebec as the proportion of cohabiting couples increased (Pelletier 2015), this difference remains substantial.…”

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A matter of norms: Family background, religion, and generational change in the diffusion of first union breakdown among French-speaking Quebeckers

Laplante¹

2016

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BACKGROUNDPrevious research conducted in societies where unmarried cohabitation remains limited suggests that having grown up with unmarried parents fosters marital instability. There is little research on this relationship in societies where unmarried cohabitation has become common. OBJECTIVEWe take advantage of the concurrent diffusion of unmarried cohabitation and union breakdown among French-speaking Quebeckers to examine whether family background (having grown up with unmarried parents and parental separation) and religion (reporting a denomination and religious attendance) have been key factors (intermediate variables) in the diffusion of conjugal instability or have been different consequences of a process of normative change unfolding across cohorts. METHODSWe use a subsample of 2,265 first unions from the 2011 Canadian General Social Survey. We estimate the hazard function and the effects of the independent variables on the hazard of breakdown using Royston-Parmar flexible hazards models. RESULTSResults show that having grown up with unmarried parents has no effect on the hazard of breakdown despite the increasing proportion of respondents having lived in this form of family, whereas religious attendance does have an effect despite its decreasing importance. Parental separation increases the hazard of marital disruption for men but not for women. CONTRIBUTIONAmong French-speaking Quebeckers, the diffusion of unmarried cohabitation and of union breakdown seem to be two aspects of a profound shift in norms regarding family life rather than being related to each other in a direct causal way.1 Centre Urbanisation Culture Société, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Université du Québec, Canada. E-Mail: benoit.laplante@ucs.inrs.ca.Laplante: Family background, religion, and generational change in the diffusion of first union breakdown 784http://www.demographic-research.org Context and objectivesThe transformations that occurred in family life among French-speaking Quebeckers over the last decades, and especially the concurrent diffusion of unmarried cohabitation and union breakdown, provide a unique setting for the study of the relation between some aspects of normative and behavioural change in family life. Union breakdown was still relatively uncommon among the people born between 1931 and 1940: Only 20% of their first union ended in breakdown after 30 years. However, more than half of first unions broke down after fewer than 20 years among the people born between 1971 and 1980. This change did not occur alone. Whereas marriage was the normal onset of conjugal life for almost all individuals born between 1931 and 1940, more than 90% of those born between 1971 and 1980 started their conjugal life with unmarried cohabitation, most of them not having married their partner before the breakdown of the union or the time of the survey. These changes occurred as religious affiliation decreased and religious attendance plummeted. From one cohort to the next, the proportion of children who grew ...

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A matter of norms: Family background, religion, and generational change in the diffusion of first union breakdown among French-speaking Quebeckers

Laplante¹

2016

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“…We use a three-pronged approach. First, we use the decomposition technique of period fertility measures introduced by Laplante and Fostik (2015). This technique allows the decomposition of fertility measures -age-specific fertility rates, cumulative fertility at any age, the total fertility rate -according to the states of a state space so that the contribution of each state to any of these measures are estimated.…”

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The effect of union dissolution on the fertility of women in Montevideo, Uruguay

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Laplante²

2020

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BACKGROUND In Uruguay, the recent phase of fertility decline started in the late 1990s, a decade after deep changes in the family dynamics took root in the country. The order and timing of the two phenomena gave weight to the notion that the changes in the family dynamics caused fertility to drop below population replacement level. OBJECTIVE Our goal is to assess whether or not separation, divorce, and repartnering have been related to the recent decrease in fertility in Uruguay. METHODS We use data from a retrospective survey and a three-pronged strategy: (1) we compare the contribution to fertility and its evolution across cohorts of three broad steps of the conjugal history; (2) we estimate the effect of each of these steps on the hazard of having the next child; (3) we predict and compare the fertility, actual and counterfactual, of women who ended and women who did not end their first union. We investigate especially how union dissolution affects fertility and how patterns vary by educational levels. RESULTS Ending the first union reduces the fertility of Uruguayan women, and this reduction was larger among the low-educated women from the oldest cohort than it is in the youngest one. It could be very small among the highly educated of the youngest cohort. CONTRIBUTION We show that among Uruguayan women, the negative effect of union dissolution on fertility seems to decrease as dissolution becomes more common and occurs earlier, and

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“…The operation can also be interpreted as a decomposition exercise: the usual age-specific rates are decomposed in three sets of rates conditional on conjugal situation. The usual TFR can be interpreted as a weighted sum of the age-specific fertility rates of the three conjugal situations, the weights being the proportions of women living in each of the three conjugal situations (Laplante and Fostik 2015).…”

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Childbearing within Marriage and Consensual Union in Latin America, 1980–2010

Laplante

Castro-Martín

Cortina

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Population & Development Rev

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This article compares the fertility patterns of women in consensual union and marriage in 13 Latin American countries, using census microdata from the four most recent census rounds and a methodological approach that combines the own‐children method and Poisson regression. Results show that in all these countries, fertility is slightly higher within consensual union than marriage and that the age pattern of fertility is very similar in marital and non‐marital unions. Further analyses show that over the period considered, childbearing within a consensual union has changed from rare to increasingly common, although not yet mainstream, for highly educated women in most countries examined. Results show that in Latin America, at least since the 1980s, women's childbearing patterns depend on their age and on their being in a conjugal relationship, but not on the legal nature of this relationship. The similarities in reproductive behavior between marital and non‐marital unions are not confined to the socially disadvantaged groups, but apply as well to the better off.

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Two period measures for comparing the fertility of marriage and cohabitation

Cited by 14 publications

References 12 publications

A matter of norms: Family background, religion, and generational change in the diffusion of first union breakdown among French-speaking Quebeckers

A matter of norms: Family background, religion, and generational change in the diffusion of first union breakdown among French-speaking Quebeckers

The effect of union dissolution on the fertility of women in Montevideo, Uruguay

Childbearing within Marriage and Consensual Union in Latin America, 1980–2010

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