Like several Western countries, the first stage of the Second Demographic Transition happened in Canada between 1960 and 1970 and featured an increasing rate of divorce and the end of both the baby boom and the young age at marriage. [...] The third stage, from mid-1980s to the present, features the plateau of divorce and the increase of cohabitation among the previously married. [...] In the discussion of the results from these life tables, we mainly present the cumulative proportion of union dissolution by marital or union duration, derived from the age at the start of a union, either by marriage or cohabitation, and the age at separation or divorce. [...] For men, the estimates for high status men in the 1926-35 is probably best ignored as they are based on very small numbers but between the men in the middle and in the low status, those in the middle show higher probabilities of dissolution. [...] The trend is similar for women - the higher the social status, the higher the rate of dissolution with the greatest difference occurring from around the 3rd to the 7th year of union.
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