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- Title
Cohabitation Has Become Common in Great Britain, Especially for Divorced.
- Authors
Turner, R.
- Abstract
The article presents a study on cohabitation among men and women in Great Britain. One in seven unmarried women and one in eight unmarried men in Great Britain under 60 were cohabiting in 1986 and 1987, according to data from that country's General Household Survey; the proportions were greater-one in three men and one in four women-among the divorced. Among all men and women in Great Britain under age 60, the proportions cohabiting were 12 percent and 14 percent, respectively. According to data from the 1987-1988 U.S. National Survey of Families and Households, four percent of Americans aged 19 and over were cohabiting in 1987, including 11 percent of the never-married and 10 percent of the previously married. Cohabitation in Great Britain is most prevalent among unmarried men and women in their late 20s and early 30s; proportions were distinctly higher for men than for women only after age 45. In each age-group, cohabiting never-married women were less likely than married women to have a child, but more likely to have a child than were their noncohabiting counterparts. Twenty-eight percent of cohabiting never-married women in Great Britain under age 60 had a child, compared with only eight percent of their noncohabiting counterparts. For women in their 20s-the prime age for cohabiting--these differences were least marked (29 percent and 19 percent, respectively).
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; UNMARRIED couples; MARITAL status; SINGLE people; SOCIAL indicators; HOUSEHOLDS; HEALTH surveys
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1990, Vol 22, Issue 4, p189
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2135617