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"A central motivation of this study was to shed light on the potential for increase in currently uncommon family behaviors such as cohabitation and non-marital fertility. The fact that premarital pregnancy does not appear to be part of the conventional path to family formation suggests does not provide us with any reason to expect rapid spread of cohabitation and nonmarital fertility. Our results do, however, suggest that increasing heterogeneity in the family formation process may lead to growth in other non-normative patterns to family formation among subgroups of the population – especially the less educated and those who begin sexual relations at young ages. This is a marked departure from the very homogenous family life course that characterized Japan until recently (Brinton 1992). This increasing heterogeneity in patterns of family formation has potentially important implications for subsequent family outcomes such as divorce and for social stratification."

From Raymo and Iwasawa (2004)
Premarital Pregnancy and Spouse Pairing Patterns in Japan. PAA2004.