Nonmarital cohabitation and marriage are now fundamentally linked, a fact that is routinely
reflected in current research on union formation. Unprecedented changes in the timing …

Many studies have found that married people have higher subjective well-being than those
who are not married. Yet the increase in cohabitation raises questions as to whether only …

The aim is to examine how mental health is affected by cohabitation and marriage.
Individual fixed-effects models are estimated from Norwegian register data containing …

There is a long-standing debate on whether extensive Nordic family policies have the
intended equalizing effect on family and gender differences in economic outcomes. This …

INCREASES IN DIVORCE and cohabitation are among the most prominent behavioral
changes to affect the family over the past few decades. Both behaviors have received …

The twenty-first century has seen major changes in both the nature of work and the nature of
families in the United States—even before the COVID-19 pandemic upended nearly every …

Many authors have documented a global rise in singlehood during the past decades,
expanding beyond Western or industrialized countries. Simultaneously, the number of single …

In most cultures and religions, marriage has long been one of the fundamental building
blocks of adult life, offering social recognition, legal stability and financial benefits to …

In this paper we discuss changes in family patterns in the European Union over the past fifty
years and the policy implications of these trends. First, we address regional developments in …

Patterns of partnership formation and dissolution are changing dramatically across the
Western world. Some scholars have argued that women's trajectories of union formation and …