Pregnancies before marriage tend to be unintended, but this pattern is less pronounced when they occur within cohabiting unions. In East Asia, the simultaneous increase in these two nontraditional behaviors may be consistent with the Second Demographic Transition.
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The Second Demographic Transition (SDT) has been a key theoretical framework for declining fertility and family changes, often marked by the decoupling of marriage and childbearing. While East Asia...
