Cohabiting, married or single : portraying, analyzing, and modeling new living arrangements in the changing societies of Europe / Christopher Prinz.

By:

Prinz, Christopher

Contributor(s):

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Aldershot : Avebury, c1995.Description: xvi,204p. : ill., maps ; 23cmISBN:

9781859721872 :
1859721877

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.8094 PRI

Contents:

1.Introduction, terminology, and concepts -- 2.Marital status: never married, married, divorced, widowed -- 3.Cohabitation -- 4.Union status: cohabiting, married single -- 5.The futrue of marital status and union status.

Summary: This work asks if we are observing a cultural change leading to the dissolution of the family, as we see marriage declining, divorce rising, fertility dropping and children born to single mothers increasing. However, it suggests, we may merely be seeing a shift from marriage to cohabitation.

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Title notes ( 5 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Long Loan	TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending	306.8094 PRI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		103624
Short Loan	TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending	306.8094 PRI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		103625

Bibliography: p189-195. _ Includes indexes.

On t.p.: IIASA.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-195) and indexes.

This work asks if we are observing a cultural change leading to the dissolution of the family, as we see marriage declining, divorce rising, fertility dropping and children born to single mothers increasing. However, it suggests, we may merely be seeing a shift from marriage to cohabitation.