Liefbroer Aart C, Dourleijn Edith
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, The Hague.
Demography. 2006 May;43(2):203-21. doi: 10.1353/dem.2006.0018.
Cohabitors and married people who cohabited before marriage have higher risks of union dissolution than people who married without prior cohabitation. However, these differences in union stability vary markedly between countries. We hypothesize that the impact of cohabitation on union stability depends on how far cohabitation has diffused within a society. We test this hypothesis with data from 16 European countries. The results support our hypothesis: former cohabitors run a higher risk of union dissolution than people who married without prior cohabitation only in societies in which cohabitation is a small minority or a large majority phenomenon.
与婚前未同居而直接结婚的人相比，同居者以及婚前同居的已婚人士婚姻关系解体的风险更高。然而，这些婚姻关系稳定性的差异在不同国家之间有显著不同。我们假设同居对婚姻关系稳定性的影响取决于同居在一个社会中的普及程度。我们用来自16个欧洲国家的数据来检验这一假设。结果支持了我们的假设：只有在同居现象属于少数或多数的社会中，曾经同居的人婚姻关系解体的风险才会高于婚前未同居而直接结婚的人。
