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The limitations of understanding multi-partner fertility in Australia.(Report)

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| December 01, 2008 | Gray, Edith; Evans, Ann | COPYRIGHT 2008 Monash University, Centre for Population and Urban Research. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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Over the past few decades there have been enormous changes in family formation, structures and processes. In Australia, and many other western-industrialised countries, there has been a large increase in the proportion of people who cohabit outside of marriage, divorce is commonplace, and exnuptial births have increased rapidly over the last twenty years. Childbearing certainly no longer occurs just within marriage; in fact 33 per cent of births occurring in 2006 were exnuptial. (1) Such exnuptial births may take place in cohabiting relationships, to single persons, or after relationship dissolution or death of a partner. With the increase in ...

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