Andrejs Plakans’s research while affiliated with Iowa State University and other places

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Stigmatized cohabitation in the Latvian region of the eastern Baltic littoral: nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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Stigmatized cohabitation in the Latvian region of the eastern Baltic littoral: nineteenth and twentieth centuries

May 2014

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The History of the Family

The social history of coresidence arrangements in the Latvian region suggests that forms of cohabitation without marriage were present in the Latvian population since the eighteenth century when empirical evidence became available. Before the twentieth century, however, these forms remained marginal and seldom involved choice. The subject of severe criticism until the 1960s-1970s, such forms become more widespread thereafter as the Latvian population began to exhibit many key features of a second demographic revolution. Post-Soviet censuses now suggest that such coresidence patterns in the Latvian population approach the levels of those in most western European states, including the Scandinavian countries.

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... Cohabitation has become more prevalent since the 1960s and 1970s, but its roots go deep into history and are associated with the history of marriage (Kok and Leinarte, 2015;Lesthaeghe, 2010). The communist regime in Eastern Europe was not sympathetic to extramarital partnerships, so these partnerships were not treated as existing in census data (Hoem et al. 2009;Plakans and Lipša, 2014). From the late 16th to the 20th century, religions and governments prohibited or at least condemned cohabitation between unmarried partners. ...

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Partnership Forms in Europe: A Systematic Literature Review
Stigmatized cohabitation in the Latvian region of the eastern Baltic littoral: nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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The History of the Family