title: Having a birth outside marriage: the proportions of lone mothers and cohabiting mothers who subsequently marry.
abstract: This article describes a study in which a sample of just over 2 1/2 thousand women giving birth to a child outside marriage during 1988 in England and Wales were traced in the marriage registers to see whether they subsequently married. Since they were not married at the time of the birth, they would have been either lone mothers or cohabiting mothers. For those who did marry during the 8 year period of tracing, information was extracted from copies of the appropriate marriage entries to give a first-time picture of the proportions and characteristics of mothers who subsequently married.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Haskey
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001719:Birth Certificates; D003201:Computers; D005220:Fathers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008423:Maternal Age; D020954:Single-Parent Family / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012923:Social Class; D006113:United Kingdom