@inbook{0e7d8f6e7dfe49999ea2812cca02f0b7,
title = "Marriage, Marital Status and Relationships",
abstract = "Unlike births and deaths, the two types of events of primary interest to demographers, marriage is not a biological event but a social event. Historically it has been of interest to demographers principally because of its close connection with the process of fertility. In most societies marriage has traditionally signalled the commencement of regular sexual activity and hence of serious exposure to the risk of childbearing. Equally, provided the biological procceses associated with getting older have not already done so, marriage dissolution, whether through divorce or widowhood, tends (sometimes only temporarily) to terminate exposure to the risk of childbearing.",
keywords = "Consensual Union, Formal Marriage, Marital Fertility Rate, Marriage Rate, Marriage Timing",
author = "Carmichael, {Gordon A.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-23255-3_5",
language = "English",
series = "Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media B.V.",
pages = "213--245",
booktitle = "Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis",
address = "Germany",
}