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Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons

15.06.2021

Aart C. Liefbroer and Mioara Zoutewelle-Terovan – Springer, June 2021.
For more than 30 years, what we would call an ‘individual choice’ paradigm has been dominant in social demographic thinking and empirical research on family formation processes in western, industrialized societies. Demographic behaviors such as decisions to leave the parental home, to start or end a partner relationship, and to have children were mainly viewed as the outcome of individual choices, based on young adults’ own preferences.
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