Married and cohabiting partnerships

Nicole Hiekel

Chapter Chapter 6 in Research Handbook on Partnering across the Life Course, 2025, pp 64-75 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter addresses, from a socio-demographic and comparative perspective, trends in cohabitation and marriage. It examines how union formation processes stratify across countries and social groups, linking cohabitation and marriage when appropriate, such as when looking at timing in the life course and preferences when choosing between cohabitation and marriage. It addresses the duration of cohabitation vis-à-vis marriage, and discusses how relationship instability and processes of institutionalizing a cohabiting union via marriage jointly contribute to increasingly diverse partnership trajectories in contemporary life courses. A particular focus is on how individuals attach meaning to their cohabiting union, and how this might affect relationship trajectories and social and demographic behavior in these unions. Thus, the chapter contributes to framing demographic behavior in the normative and value context in which it occurs.

Keywords: Demographic changes; Union formation patterns; Cross-cultural comparison; Cohabitation; Marriage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803923376
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