2025/01/01 by Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Krista K. Payne · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics #Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy #International Labor and Employment Law
paper · doi:10.25035/ncfmr/fp-25-15
openalex publication_date 2025/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/05/09 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
Over the last few decades, marriage and childbearing have become less tightly linked (Hayford, Guzzo, & Smock, 2014), and cohabitation has contributed to high levels of non-marital childbearing (Lichter, Sassler, & Turner, 2014). Understanding the links between cohabitation, marriage, and childbearing behaviors is complicated given delays in the timing of both union formation and fertility. Consequently, focusing on union and childbearing characteristics of women at the end of the reproductive years may provide novel insights. In this profile, we use data from the Current Population Survey’s biennial June Fertility Supplement to analyze current union status and the distribution of the number of children ever born (no children, one, two, or three or more) for women aged 40-44.