Kiernan K
Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics.
Popul Trends. 1999 Summer(96):25-32.
This article examines for a range of European countries: the extent to which men and women are not forming partnerships and how this has changed over time; the number of partnerships experienced; type of first partnership in terms of whether it commences with marriage or cohabitation and, if the latter, whether it converts into marriage; as well as the duration of different types of cohabiting unions. It also includes an examination of the risk of breakdown amongst first unions that commence with cohabitation or marriage and the variations in type of first union according to background characteristics, including: educational attainment, religious observance and experience of parental divorce in childhood.
男性和女性未结成伴侣关系的程度以及这种情况随时间的变化；经历的伴侣关系数量；首次伴侣关系的类型，即其是以婚姻还是同居开始，如果是后者，是否会转变为婚姻；以及不同类型同居关系的持续时间。它还包括对以同居或婚姻开始的首次结合关系破裂风险的考察，以及根据背景特征（包括教育程度、宗教信仰和童年时期父母离婚经历）划分的首次结合关系类型的差异。
