The conditional probability of marrying during the seven calendar months before or after a first birth, given that a women bears her first child in the first few years after initiating a consensual union and has not already converted the union into a marriage, is suggested here as a measure of the birth-connected marriage propensity. This propensity has fallen dramatically in data for Danish cohorts of women interviewed in 1975. The fall is partly a consequence of a strong decrease in nuptiality among unwed mothers.
Funding
Stockholm University
History
ISSN
2002-617X
Original title
Marriages connected with first births among cohabiting women in the Danish fertility survey of 1975
Original language
English
Publication date
1984-04-02
Affiliation (institution of first SU-affiliated author)
310 Sociologiska institutionen | Department of Sociology