Remarriage Trends and Correlates

The goal of this manuscript is to provide a descriptive summary of patterns of remarriage in Japan, a critically important but understudied feature of the country’s demographic landscape with implications for a wide array of policy relevant outcomes, including fertility, child and adult well-being, and family stability. Because existing research on remarriage in Japan by demographers (or social scientists more generally) is extremely limited, we preface our focus on Japan an overview of research on remarriage in other wealthy countries, primarily the U.S. This first chapter provides a broad overview of what we know from previous research about trends in remarriage and correlates of remarriage.