Abstract
Czech children are born to markedly different families today than only twenty years ago. Especially the rise of non-marital births is often pointed to.
However, the official registration lacks information about whether the unmarried mothers have partners. This paper aims to fill this gap in knowledge and focuses on the trends in family forms children born to in more detail.
I use data from a longitudinal survey of Czech household, the Labour Force Survey 1993-2009. Preliminary results show that the proportion of unpartnered mothers increased during the study period, but larger part of the rise in unmarried motherhood is to be attributed to unmarried cohabitation.
The higher is the mother''s educational level the lower is her chance to have a child outside marriage. However, once the mother is not married, her educational attainment does not predict whether she has a partner.