title: The family histories of Australian women.
abstract: "This paper exploits retrospective life-history data to examine changing age-specific patterns of co-residence of Australian women between the ages of 20 and 59 years at interview in 1986.  Overlaying histories of leaving home, marital unions and childbearing, we identify cohort changes in the time spent before leaving the parental home, in transition between leaving home and forming a conjugal union, in times spent in union and times spent with children.  Our analyses show that, despite massive recent declines in fertility and nuptiality, and a greater diversity in living arrangements, the nuclear family of couple and children remains the most common household unit and is unlikely to lose its pre-eminence in the near future." (SUMMARY IN FRE)
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bracher
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Santow
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001315:Australia; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D005190:Family; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005298:Fertility; D005843:Geography; D008393:Marriage; D009679:Nuclear Family; D010139:Pacific Islands; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Age Factors; Australia; Cohort Analysis; Consensual Union; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Family And Household; Family Characteristics; Family Life Cycle; Family Research; Family Size; Fertility; Geographic Factors; Marriage; Marriage Patterns; Nuclear Family; Nuptiality; Oceania; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Residence Characteristics; Spatial Distribution; Time Factors