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Abstract (English)

The author argues that the important changes in the behaviour related to family and sexual life that have been observed in Quebec during the second half of the 20th century are consequences of an important transformation of the foundation of the normative system shared by the members of its main socio-religious group, French-speaking Catholics. Using biographical data from the 2001 Survey on Family History, he compares the evolution, from 1937 to 2001, of the behaviour of Quebec French-speaking Catholics and Ontario English-speaking Protestants in the rate of union formation and the choice between marriage and common-law union as the form of first union. The general result is that the evolution of the differences between the two groups is compatible with the hypothesis.

Abstract (French)

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