International Seminar on Union Breakdown and Repartnering Around the World

4-6 May 2015 - CPC member Paulina Galezewska and CPC associate Nora Sanchez Gassen presented papers at this international seminar, held in Montreal, Canada.

Organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Nuptiality and the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), the seminar was hosted by the Centre Urbanisation Culture Société de l'INRS.

In the great majority of countries around the world, family ties are increasingly becoming more indistinct, unstable and flexible. The seminar focussed on issues of separation, divorce, repartnering and remarriage around the world, their trends, their determinants and the associated emerging challenges for family demography.

Paulina and Nora presented the following papers at the conference:

- The link between the divorce revolution and the cohabitation boom
Brienna Perelli-Harris, Paulina Galezewska, Ann Berrington, Nora Sanchez Gassen and Jennifer Holland.
Presented in the Second session: Micro and macro consequences of union breakdown at 09.00am on 5 May 2015.

- Cross-national differences in repartnering in Europe: The role of individual demographic characteristics
Paulina Galezewska, Brienna Perelli-Harris and Ann Berrington.
Presented in the Fifth session: Repartnering at 09.00am on 6 May 2015.

Read more about CPC research on fertility and family change and our project on non-marital childbearing.

For further information about the International Seminar, please contact seminar organiser, Benoît Laplante Benoit.Laplante@UCS.INRS.Ca or visit the IUSSP website.

Posted 30/04/2015 09:41