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Fewer and fewer Europeans are marrying and more and more are living together without being married. Europeans are also separating and divorcing more frequently, often to form a second or even a thirdunion. Beyond these common trends, the situations in ...

India illustrates the paradox of the world population: even though birth control is widely practised and some tates have below-replacement fertility, the population is increasing rapidly and is expected to grow by 50% in the next 50 years. Jacques Véron ...

Twelve European countries have introduced partnership or marriage between spouses of the same sex. The rights granted to registered same-sex couples vary between countries: similar to those of married different-sex couples in the Nordic countries, the Netherlands and Belgium, but ...

In a country with a long history of population mixing, defining criteria for identifying origins that are bothobjective and acceptable to everyone is a difficulttask. Though respondents do not oppose the principle of reporting family and individual geographicalorigins, many are ...

Although the birth of a child hardly affects men’semployment, 40% of women report that their work-ing pattern is affected. Stopping work for a shorttime or reducing working hours occurs more fre-quently after second or third births than after thefirst. The ...

In Africa, more women than men are infected by the AIDS virus. More biologically vulnerable, women do notalways have sufficient authority to impose the use of condoms or ensure the fidelity of their partner.Prevention and HIV-testing, though still scarce, is ...

According to the INSEE projections published in 2006, metropolitan France will have between 61 and 79 million inhabitants in 2050. The medium scenario forecasts a population of 70 million, and a process of population ageing. While previous projections foresaw a ...

Physicians are increasingly faced with medical decisions liable to hasten the death of very old patients. According to the Eureld survey conducted in six EEuropean countries, medical decisions of this type occur in between a quarter and a half of ...

In Europe, the next fifty years will be marked by the retirement and death of the baby boom generations. But the socioeconomic implications are not necessarily what one might expect. Though the people reaching retirement age will gradually outnumber young ...

Foreign women account for 12% of births in France, and immigrant women, including naturalized French citizens, 15%. The fertility of foreign women is higher than that of French women (3.3 children versus 1.8 in 2004), but since only a small ...