The study makes use of the 2016 Household Multipurpose Survey of Family, Social Subjects, and Life Cycle to demonstrate that family‐related behavior is now rapidly changing in Italy. The country is often taken as a stronghold of traditionalism. We, instead, highlight recent and substantial changes in cohabitation, dissolution, and nonmarital fertility in the country. In doing so, we carefully assess the predictions made by the Second Demographic Transition (SDT) and show that trends in Italy are monotonically moving in the direction of the SDT. There are, though, important differences across educational groups and regions, that is, family‐related behavior is also changing in the South of Italy in much the same way but not at the same speed as in the rest of the country.

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最后的堡垒正在陷落：意大利新家庭现实的调查证据


该研究利用 2016 年关于家庭、社会主体和生命周期的家庭多用途调查来证明，意大利的家庭相关行为正在迅速发生变化。该国经常被视为传统主义的大本营。相反，我们强调该国同居、离婚和非婚生育方面最近发生的重大变化。在此过程中，我们仔细评估了第二次人口转型 (SDT) 所做的预测，并表明意大利的趋势单调地朝着 SDT 的方向发展。不过，不同教育群体和地区之间存在重要差异，也就是说，意大利南部的家庭相关行为也在以大致相同的方式发生变化，但速度与该国其他地区不同。