1. Objectifs

Intentions :
«Taking the point of view of Canadian children, we investigated the differential effect of the diffusion of childbearing within cohabitation on married and cohabiting parents’ risks of separation.» (p. 1317)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
«The analysis is conducted by merging individual survey data on Canadian children born from 1989 to 2004 (NLSCY [National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth]; n=24,175) with contextual data from various sources.» (p. 1322)

Instruments :
Questionnaire

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse statistique

3. Résumé

Results show that «[a]s childbearing within cohabitation increased in Canadian provinces, cohabiting families remained less stable than married ones, but the stability levels of both converged. The stability gap was only partially explained by the selection of more separation-prone parents into cohabitation; the remaining gap could be associated with the normative context in which family formation occurs.» (p. 1317) «[V]ital statistics for the province of Quebec seem to indicate that married couples are not becoming more selected, at least in regards to religiosity. While the total first marriage rate of Quebec’s women plummeted from 840‰ in 1971 to 315‰ in 2011, the share of religious marriages among all marriages fell from 95% to 54%. Not only does the link between religion and marriage continue to dissipate at this very low marriage rate, but civil marriages themselves are also moving away, at least symbolically, from the law and the state.» (p. 1335)