Abstract
As demographers and statisticians, we may study family events over time and across borders, but the meaning and substance of one and the same event is often very different. Every Norwegian who is old enough to remember the 1960s, knows for instance that the curve describing births out-of-wedlock is mixing events with totally different characteristics. The low figures in the beginning of the 1960s, less than four per cent, are a measure of stigmatised single motherhood, while today’s high figures, nearly every second childbirth, reflect mostly on the well-accepted practice of non-marital cohabitation. A graph showing changes in the number of births out-of-wedlock over time thus describes so many different phenomena that it would hardly make any sense to present it. Such substantial changes are among the topics of this chapter, with special emphasis on demographic events in early adult life.
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Noack, T. (2001). Transition to Adulthood in Norway. In: Corijn, M., Klijzing, E. (eds) Transitions to Adulthood in Europe. European Studies of Population, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9717-3_10
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