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- Title
Young Dutch Women Are Less Likely than Before to Marry, Bear Children.
- Authors
Althaus, F.
- Abstract
The article declares that young women in the Netherlands are increasingly living alone or cohabiting when they leave their parents' home, according to data from the 1988 Netherlands Fertility Survey (NFS). Like their counterparts in the U.S., fewer women are marrying, and those who do are marrying later. Trends in childbearing are similar to trends in marriage: More women are remaining childless, and those who are having children are doing so later in life and are having fewer children. The 1988 NFS collected data from a nationally representative sample of women born in 1950-1969, regardless of marital status, nationality or country of birth. Almost 6,000 women were interviewed, and 700 more were asked to complete an abbreviated questionnaire. Investigators analyzed trends over time by comparing the results from the 1988 NFS with those from the 1982 NFS, which collected data from women born in 1945-1964. Increasing numbers of young women cohabit rather than marry when they leave their parents' home. Among women who left at age 18-22, the proportion who moved directly into a cohabiting arrangement rose from three parent of those born in 1950-1954 to 21 percent of those born in 1960-1964.
- Subjects
NETHERLANDS; YOUNG women; LIVING alone; UNMARRIED couples; MARRIAGE; CHILDBIRTH; MARITAL status
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1991, Vol 23, Issue 4, p190
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2135748