SOC303H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Thomson, E., Lappegård, T., Carlson, M., Evans, A. and Gray, E., 2014. Childbearing Across Partnerships in Australia, the United States, Norway, and Sweden. Demography 51(2):485-508.: Demographic Transition, Nuclear Family
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Childbearing across partnerships in australia, the united states, norway, and. Having children with more than one child is on the rise. In us childbearing across partnerships was due to low ses: common for these parents to have children with another partner. Consider child bearing across partnerships it is considered as a event in a women(cid:495)s childbearing career. Childbearing across partnerships in life courses and kinship systems. The timing of the second demographic transition varies in different countries in terms of family life. Rise of divorce in late 20th century called into question the idea of the nuclear family. Remarriage has become the primary source of childbearing. Large number of stepfamilies were formed by cohabitation: about half of stepfamilies have children together, college educated are less likely to have children with more than one partner. Childbearing is a unique time during when a women is deemed fertile.
