Grasping the diversity of cohabitation. Fertility intentions among cohabiters across Europe1
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there is no broad consensus as to whether cohabitation is seriously challenging the hegemony of the legal and social institution of marriage as the proper setting in which to bear and rear children. Some scholars have emphasized that marriage is increasingly being decoupled from the childbearing process (Kiernan, 2001; Smock and Greenland, 2010), yet others have argued that cohabitation is far from replacing marriage, even in the Scandinavian countries, which are characterized by a very high prevalence of cohabitation
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