title: The impact of first-birth timing on divorce:  new evidence from a longitudinal analysis based on the Central Population Register of Norway.
abstract: "The association between divorce risks in first marriage and the timing of the first birth is inspected in a life-table analysis of registered birth and marriage histories from Norway.  One of the main conclusions is that the high propensity to divorce among women who have had a premarital birth is not confined to those who marry someone other than the father of their child. Also, women who have had a premarital child with their husband, run a much higher risk of marital breakup than do those who had their first baby in wedlock.... It is argued that couples who postpone childbearing beyond two years of marriage may have particularly low divorce rates." (SUMMARY IN FRE)
mesh_terms: D001722:Birth Order; D001723:Birth Rate; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004243:Divorce; D005060:Europe; D005298:Fertility; D007086:Illegitimacy; D015993:Life Tables; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008393:Marriage; D009664:Norway; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D017584:Reproductive History; D012106:Research; D012537:Scandinavian and Nordic Countries; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Delayed Childbearing; Demographic Analysis; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Divorce; Europe; Fertility; Fertility Measurements; First Birth; Life Table Method; Longitudinal Studies; Northern Europe; Norway; Nuptiality; Population; Population Dynamics; Pregnancy History; Premarital Pregnancy; Reproductive Behavior; Research Methodology; Scandinavia; Studies; Time Factors