Nonmarital Childbearing in Romania
Nonmarital Childbearing in Romania

Summary/Abstract: One important demographic change that followed the fall of the communist regime in Romania has been the increase of non-marital childbearing. Throughout this article we want to see whether this behaviour is an expression of the second demographic transition and its forerunners are high educated women, or it is a pattern of disadvantage that characterises rather low educated persons. We conduct our analysis on Generations and Gender Survey data and we approach the topic from the life course perspective. The rich data that we use allow us to reconstruct the partnership and fertility histories of 6,001 women. We use the technique of event history analysis and investigate the influence of different background factors and personal characteristic on the transition to the first nonmarital birth. Our results indicate that childbearing outside marriage in Romania is rather a pattern of disadvantage.

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