Is marriage losing its centrality in Italy?

Overview Chapter 6: The diverse faces of the Second Demographic Transition in Europe

“…30 This pattern of a modern diffusion of cohabitation, documented for the Netherlands (de Feijter 1991), England and Wales (England and Wales chapter), Italy (Rosina and Fraboni 2004), and Spain (Baizán, Aasve, and Billari 2003), supports the notion of highly educated individuals as open-minded forerunners heralding the changes in family formation. 31 However, in a number of other societies, cohabitation had initially spread among the less-educated and economically disadvantaged people.…”

“…31 Rosina and Fraboni (2004) have also detected a strong significant effect of father's education on a young woman's propensity to enter cohabitation before marriage (model based on data for Northern and Central regions of Italy). 32 However, in line with the SDT arguments cohabitation in the U.S. is also linked to less traditional value orientation.…”

Things change: Women’s and men’s marital disruption dynamics in Italy during a time of social transformations, 1970-2003

“…In this respect Rosina and Fraboni (2004) view the diffusion of informal unions in the Italian context as a fashion which develops from the high to the low population social strata.…”

Religion and union formation in Italy: Catholic precepts, social pressure, and tradition

“…In addition, parents can influence the perceptions and behaviors of their children through their guidance and supervision. For instance, Rosina and Fraboni (2004) suggest that in Italy young adults weigh the decision to adopt a new living arrangement with the level of acceptance of their family of origin. Parents view the failure of their children as their own failure and they may try to discourage their offspring from doing things that are socially uncommon or not accepted (Di Giulio and Rosina 2007), such as behaving counter to the prevailing Catholic doctrine.…”