Regional Variations in Multiple-Partner Fertility in Canada

Fostik, Ana Laura; Bourdais, Céline Le

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“…Secondly, births up to 9 months following a coresidential partnership dissolution were linked with the previous partner as a child would have been conceived at the time of the previous union. These assumptions are the same as those made in Fostik and Bourdais ( 2020 ) estimates of MPF.…”

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“…Amongst men and women who were aged in their forties, MPF prevalence varied from 13 to 17% (men) and 11 to 20% (women) (Dorius, 2010 ; Guzzo, 2014 ; Manlove et al, 2008 ; Thomson et al, 2020 ). Compared to the USA, MPF in Canada was estimated to be much lower; 5% of men and 8% of women aged 25–64 (Fostik & Bourdais, 2020 ).…”

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Educational Gradient of Multi-partner Fertility: First Estimates for the UK

Stannard,

Berrington,

Alwan

2024

Eur J Population

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Recent demographic changes in Western countries have resulted in higher rates of partnership dissolution and serial partnering, and an increase in childbearing across multiple partnerships. This has given rise to more complex family dynamics including multi-partner fertility (MPF), defined as having biological children with two or more partners. Yet estimates of MPF in the UK have not previously been available. This paper describes an ‘indirect approach’ to estimate the prevalence of MPF in the UK, for men and women, given different assumptions. The paper additionally explores differences in MPF according to own and parental educational attainment. Amongst those born in Britain in 1970, 12–14% of men and 15–18% of women experienced MPF by age 42, depending on the assumptions made. For most of the cohort, MPF occurred with two different coresidential partners. We have established that MPF is a common family formation in the UK, but there are large educational disparities in MPF prevalence.

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Educational Gradient of Multi-partner Fertility: First Estimates for the UK

Stannard,

Berrington,

Alwan

2024

Eur J Population

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Union Instability and Fertility: An International Perspective

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In this article, we analyse the relationship between union instability and cumulated fertility among ever-partnered women in several regions across Europe and the Americas with different patterns of demographic behaviour in terms of fertility levels, union instability and fertility across partnerships. We hypothesise that the relationship between union dissolution and fertility might be less negative in contexts where repartnering is more prevalent. The analysis is performed on a large dataset of 25 countries, combining information from the Harmonised Histories of the Generation and Gender Programme with our own harmonisation of survey data from three Latin American countries. This allows for the inclusion of countries with differing prevalence of union instability as measured by (a) the proportion of women who separated by age 40, and (b) the proportion who repartnered by age 40. We first examine the prevalence of separation and repartnering during reproductive ages across regions, and we estimate the proportion of cumulated fertility attributable to unions of different ranks using a decomposition method. We then analyse the links between union instability and the number of children born by age 40 among ever-partnered and ever-repartnered women, using Poisson regression. Despite observing a high degree of heterogeneity in the proportions of births occurring in the context of repartnering both within and between regions, we find a pattern where a greater prevalence of repartnering by age 40 is accompanied by higher cumulated fertility in second or subsequent unions. Our multivariate findings reveal a negative statistical relationship between separation and cumulated fertility that is partially offset by repartnering in some contexts, and that the time spent in a union during the reproductive lifespan is a key determinant of cumulated fertility, regardless of national context and independently from age at union formation and union rank.

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Fragile Families in Quebec and the Rest of Canada: A Comparison of Parental Work-Life Balance Satisfaction

Dilmaghani

Tabvuma

2021

Popul Res Policy Rev

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Regional Variations in Multiple-Partner Fertility in Canada

Cited by 4 publications

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Educational Gradient of Multi-partner Fertility: First Estimates for the UK

Educational Gradient of Multi-partner Fertility: First Estimates for the UK

Union Instability and Fertility: An International Perspective

Fragile Families in Quebec and the Rest of Canada: A Comparison of Parental Work-Life Balance Satisfaction

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