The Effects of Marital Dissolution and Re-marriage on Fertility in Urban Latin America

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Abstract
Childbearing in most societies is sanctioned only in relatively stable sexual unions, usually marriages. The net effect of marital dissolution on societal fertility, and the corresponding intervals of reproductive exposure and the reproductive time lost may be either or negative. Reproductive time lost tends to lower fertility during marital dissolution. Formation of new marital unions and creation of socially sanctioned environments for sexual unions may increase fertility. The balance between these counteracting forces and the conditions in which positive or pronatalist influence of remarriage on fertility is strongest are discussed. When marital instability fosters rather than depresses fertility of women experiencing marital dissolution also is discussed. The data in this analysis were provided by surveys coordinated by the United Nations Latin American Demographic Center.

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