Modernity, marital ties and fertility: recent changes in birth outside marriage

• Author(s): Moura Ferreira, Pedro ; Aboim, Sofia
• Date: 2002
• Origin: Análise Social
• Subject(s): monoparentalidade feminina; nascimentos fora do casamento; fenómeno demográfico; unmarried mothers; birth outside marriage; demographic phenomenon; .
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: Portuguese

Description

Situations involving cohabitation and unmarried mothers are analysed in order to highlight the family components that have contributed most to the continuous increase that there has been since the 1970's in the number of births occurring outside marriage. An attempt is made to identify the modern and traditional dynamics that are at the base of this demographic phenomenon.

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São analisadas as situações de coabitação e de monoparentalidade feminina, no intuito de destacar as componentes familiares que mais contribuíram para o aumento contínuo, desde a década de 70, dos nascimentos fora do casamento. Tentam-se identificar dinâmicas modernas e tradicionais que estão na base deste fenómeno demográfico.