Men are more likely to repartner than women. This pattern might reflect gender disparities in
barriers to repartnering. When rates of cohabitation increase, the gender disparity might …

Surveys often reveal that the number of children people would like to have is greater than
the number they actually have. This article examines the question of why people actually …

The paper focus on two main questions:(i) who is the initiator of divorces and what socio-
demographic and life-cycle characteristics determine whether the man or the woman files for …

One of the most important factors contributing to the increasing diversity of family trajectories
is the growing prevalence of unmarried cohabitation and extramarital births. Using data from …

BACKGROUND There has been a rapid spread of non-marital childbearing in the Czech
Republic during the last two decades. At the same time, the low birth weight rates of children …

Given the intensive political and economic transformation process, followed by demographic
changes that has characterized the Czech Republic and Slovakia since 1989, we examine …

The transformation of reproductive behavior in Slovakia after 1989 brought several
historically unique and dynamically ongoing changes. One of them is the increase in the …

Postponement of childbearing and age pluralization of reproduction are the main features of
the transformational changes in the fertility process in Slovakia in the last three decades …

We investigate partnership transitions of mothers who had no coresidential partner at the
time of birth of their first child ('solo mothers'). Using retrospective partnership and co …

The present article tackles new empirical evidence in the study of male reproductive
behaviour in the Czech Republic. It builds on a previously published theoretical and …