The role of premarital cohabitation in the timing of first birth in China

Yang, Lijun

doi:10.4054/demres.2021.45.8

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“…Finally, we also calculated the proportion of premarital pregnancies, that is, the proportion of respondents with a conception or birth before marriage. Premarital pregnancy became increasingly common across birth cohorts rising from around 16 percent of first births for the 1930s birth cohort to 22 percent for the 1970s cohort, which is roughly in line with findings by Qian and Jin (2020) and Yang (2021).…”

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“…Premarital pregnancy became increasingly common across birth cohorts rising from around 16 percent of first births for the 1930s birth cohort to 22 percent for the 1970s cohort, which is roughly in line with findings by Qian and Jin (2020) and Yang (2021).…”

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“…Many of the family demographic changes predicted by the SDT theory have also yet to be observed to a similar degree in Southern and Eastern Europe. Nonetheless, studies have shown larger shifts in family demographic behavior in China among younger cohorts, that is, men and women born in the 1980s, such as higher rates of cohabitation (Yu and Xie 2015) and premarital pregnancy (Qian and Jin 2020; Yang 2021). In addition, although crude divorce and remarriage rates remain low, for example, when compared to the United States or Germany, they increased considerably since the early 2000s (Wang and Zhou 2010).…”

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A Holistic Approach to Family Life Course Change across 1930–1978 Chinese Birth Cohorts

Winkle¹,

Wen²

2023

Population & Development Rev

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Family formation in China has undergone dramatic changes. Despite increasing academic attention, few studies have taken a holistic approach to study cohort change in Chinese family life courses. In this study, we assess how family life course patterns and diversity changed across 1930-1978 birth cohorts. Moreover, we evaluate to what extent changing norms, economic constraints, and institutional reforms drove cohort differences. Data from the China Family Panel Studies and sequence analysis are applied to identify family life course patterns and to calculate sequence diversity. While we found a shift in family life course patterns across 1930-1978 birth cohorts, there is no evidence that Chinese family lives have become more diverse. To the contrary, our results demonstrate that family life courses have become relatively standardized around relatively early marriage and a single child. We find that factors associated with economic constraints and educational attainment -not ideational change or institutional reforms -account for a considerable portion of cross-cohort variation in diversity of family life courses. Rather than a second demographic transition, the family demographic behavior of 1930-78 Chinese birth cohorts is marked by continuity despite change.

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A Holistic Approach to Family Life Course Change across 1930–1978 Chinese Birth Cohorts

Winkle¹,

Wen²

2023

Population & Development Rev

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“…This study will also investigate the mechanisms driving the changes in these relationships from a cohort replacement perspective using decomposition analysis. As the literature in East Asia is largely focused on Japan (Atoh, 2002; Kojima, 2010; Raymo et al, 2009; Tsuya, 2006) and China (Song & Lai, 2020, 2022; Wang & Kan, 2021; Yang, 2021; Yu & Xie, 2015), Taiwan offers a once missing piece to the puzzle.…”

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The changing face of intimate premarital relationships in Taiwan

Cheng

2023

J of Marriage and Family

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Objective: This paper examines changing intimate premarital relationships in Taiwan. Background: Marriages have been on the decline. Whether these foregone marriages are associated with a rise in cohabitation or other alternatives have become central to a thorough understanding of family changes, yet relevant research on Taiwan is limited. Methods: The Taiwan Fertility and Family Survey collected nationally representative samples of 23,495 men and women aged 20-49 in four waves from 1998 to 2016. These were used to investigate changing patterns of cohabitation, marriage plans among cohabiting couples, premarital sex, and bridal pregnancies in addition to how the patterns vary by sex, education, and cohort. Results: More adults in Taiwan have experienced intimate premarital relationships since 1998, with a shift from no educational gradient to a negative one for cohabitation and premarital conception. These patterns were gendered during 2012-2016. With a persistently short duration and fewer adults living together with the idea of eventually getting married, cohabitation has become less of a prelude to marriage than an alternative to singlehood, and very few of these have involved children. These shifting behaviors have been driven mainly by the cohort replacement effect and intra-cohort changes. Conclusion:Cohabitation has yet to become a long-term stable union involving children. A lower birth rate caused by later and fewer marriages has not been offset by nonmarital births in cohabitation, and bridal pregnancies did not seem to have resulted in more marriages. Taiwan's socio-cultural context likely plays a crucial role in the quasi-Second Demographic Transition family changes here.

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“…Cohabiting college students frequently have unprotected sex, which increases the risk of STDs and HIV/AIDS diseases. Develop unwanted pregnancies and frequently abort their children, resulting in uterine damage and death, cohabiting couples accounted for the majority of non-marital births during the 1990s (10,11). Women who cohabitate early in their lives are more likely to develop breast cancer (12).…”

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Time to premarital cohabitations and its predictors among youth women in Ethiopia 2016 demographic and health survey, using parametric shared frailty model

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Bekele

Eshete³

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Introduction In the second half of the 20th century, cohabitation became highly prevalent, especially among young women between the ages of 15 and 24. Nowadays, college students and young adults in sub-Saharan Africa often have unprotected sex and contract STDs, leading to most new HIV infections. The aim of this study is to assess the time to premarital cohabitation and its predictors among youth women aged 15–24 years using the 2016 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey. Method It is a secondary data analysis from a nationwide community-based survey. The data for this analysis was extracted from 2016 DHS data. Using STATA version 17 weighted, descriptive analysis of medians, percentiles, graphs, and frequency tables will be used to characterize the study participant. We use the Kaplan-Meier method and compare categorical predictor variables using the log-rank test. The best model for the data was selected by using Akaike information criteria. Finally, the adjusted hazard ratio or adjusted time ratio was used as a measure of effect size, with a 5% significant level and a p-value less than 0.05. Result The overall median age of premarital cohabitation was found to be 16 years (IQR, 15–18 years). The independent predictors of time to premarital cohabitation were: women's age (HR = 0.795; 95% CI: 0.761–0.868). 0.733 (95% CI: 0.607, 0.959) and 0.610 (95% CI: 0.589, 0.632) for primary, secondary, and higher education, respectively, among women who can read and write (HR = 0.896; 95% CI: 0.872, 0.920). Women with media access (HR = 0.722, 95% CI: 0.510, 0.963). Conclusion The most important idea is that educational level, access to media, age, and literacy are the most significant factors for the time-to-premarital cohabitation rate.

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The role of premarital cohabitation in the timing of first birth in China

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A Holistic Approach to Family Life Course Change across 1930–1978 Chinese Birth Cohorts

A Holistic Approach to Family Life Course Change across 1930–1978 Chinese Birth Cohorts

The changing face of intimate premarital relationships in Taiwan

Time to premarital cohabitations and its predictors among youth women in Ethiopia 2016 demographic and health survey, using parametric shared frailty model

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