Concept information
Preferred term
childbearing decisions
Definition(s)
- A marked cultural shift has occurred over the last several decades in attitudes toward marriage, accompanied by a rise in the number of families impacted by divorce and an increase in the number of children born from nonmarital unions. The following trends are of note: the ratio of marriages to divorce in the United States is approximately two to one; youth of divorced parents are more likely than those from continuously married parents to participate in nonmarital cohabitation; and the number of births to unmarried women was at an all-time high at the end of the 20th century. [Source: Cultural Sociology of Divorce: An Encyclopedia; Childbearing Decisions]
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-KT7N0210-7
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