Editing Cohabitation (section)

====Latin America====

Cohabitation in Latin America is becoming more common. Indeed, although this is a largely [[Roman Catholic]] region, it has the highest rates of non-marital childbearing in the world (55–74% of all children in this region are born to unmarried parents).<ref name="sustaindemographicdividend.org">{{cite web |url=http://sustaindemographicdividend.org/articles/international-family-indicators/global-childrens-trends |title=Global Children's Trends |work=The Sustainable Demographic Dividend |access-date=10 November 2012}}</ref> In Mexico, 18.7% of all couples were cohabiting {{as of|2005|lc=y}}. Among young people, the figures are much higher.<ref name="Vanier">{{cite web |author=Anne-Marie Ambert |title=Cohabitation and Marriage: How Are They Related? |publisher=The Vanier Institute of the Family |date=September 17, 2005 |url= https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=6642 |via=CatholicCulture.org}}</ref>

As of 2000, in [[Argentina]] 58% of births were to unmarried women.<ref name="sustaindemographicdividend.org"/>{{efn|The most recent data for Argentina are from 2000 because after 2000, Argentina's Ministry of Health changed to publishing births as mother living with a partner or not (including married or cohabiting) rather than as marital and nonmarital.}}
The percentage of births outside marriage has increased throughout Latin America during the past decades, and there is also a relation to place of residence: women living in the capital city are more likely to have children outside marriage than those living in other parts of the country.<ref>{{cite conference |author1=Teresa Castro Martín |author2=Clara Cortina |author3=Teresa Martín García |author4=Ignacio Pardo |title=La fecundidad no matrimonial en América Latina: indicadores y análisis comparativos a partir de datos censales |trans-title=Non-marital fertility in Latin America: indicators and comparative analyzes based on census data |conference=IX Jornadas de Investigación de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, UdelaR, Montevideo, 13-15 de setiembre de 2010 [IX Research Conference of the Faculty of Sciences Sociales, UdelaR, Montevideo, September 13-15, 2010] |language=es |url=http://www.fcs.edu.uy/archivos/Mesa_46_Castro%20Mart%C3%ADn%20et%20al.pdf |access-date=14 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402091547/http://www.fcs.edu.uy/archivos/Mesa_46_Castro%20Mart%C3%ADn%20et%20al.pdf |archive-date=2 April 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Recent data shows figures for non-marital childbearing to be 74% for [[Colombia]], 69% for [[Peru]], 68% for Chile, 66% for Brazil and 55% for Mexico.<ref name="sustaindemographicdividend.org"/><ref>{{Cite web |last=Vieira |first=Joice Melo |date=2013 |title=The Evolution of Births Outside of Marriage, Paternal Recognition and Children's Rights in Brazil |url=http://paa2013.princeton.edu/papers/131703 |access-date=1 August 2022 |website=Population Association of America: 2013 Annual Meeting Program |format=PDF |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304084714/http://paa2013.princeton.edu/papers/131703 |url-status=dead}}</ref>