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Marriage is positively associated with greater community involvement across a range of different activities.  [Daniel Cox – Institute for Family Studies, 5 March 2024.] READ MORE

They were meant to bring us closer together. But the more we learn about their effects, the more we see that they come with a price. [Wendy Wang and Michael Toscano – Institute for Family [...]

This paper explores adolescent pregnancies, child marriages and early unions in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, by investigating their prevalence, trends, drivers, patterns and typologies. [UNFPA [...]

This paper adapts a method of decomposition of completed cohort fertility that specifically includes the timing of first birth. Such an approach enhances the understanding of changes in cohort [...]

With 70% of couples living together before marriage in the US, it is important to understand how and when cohabitation is associated with poorer odds of marital success. [Scott M. Stanley & [...]

Is marriage merely a private institution, only between two people and therefore nobody else’s business? Or is marriage actually a very public institution in which it serves a much larger public [...]

Today wealth and marriage are positively correlated, not because wealthy individuals are the only ones who can afford to get married, but because wealth increases the value of marriage. [Clara [...]

The decline in U.S. fertility is closely related to the decline in marriage. Finding the right partner with whom to have children trumps economic reasons. [Wendy Wang – Institute for Family [...]

This study overall suggests that internet dating fosters an uneven distribution of opportunities for mar­riage, high­light­ing the role of dig­i­tal part­ner mar­kets in the social demog­ra­phy [...]