Cross-National Comparisons of Union Stability in Cohabiting and Married Families With Children.
Increases in cohabitation, nonmarital childbearing, and partnership dissolution have reshaped the family landscape in most Western countries. The United States shares many features of family change common elsewhere, although it is exceptional in its high degree of union instability. In this study, w...
| Publicado en: | Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 1389 - 1422 |
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