Dissolution of the First Marriage: Divorce in Hungary and among Hungarian Speaking People Living in Transylvania
Dissolution of the First Marriage: Divorce in Hungary and among Hungarian Speaking People Living in Transylvania

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this research was to compare partnership stability – particularly the stability of first marriage - between Hungary and Hungarian speaking people living in Transylvania being the Western region of Romania. The data come from two surveys: first we utilized the second wave of Hungarian panel survey titled “Turning Points of the Life Course” carried out in 2004/2005; secondly we used the same questionnaire as applied in Transylvania in 2006. There are statistically significant differences between the proportion of dissolved marriages in the two samples: it was 18% in Hungary and 7% in Transylvania. The risk of divorce was analysed by event history analysis. In Hungary and also in Transylvania the risk of divorce is affected by the number of common children and religiosity: marriages without child(ren) and where the couple is not religious are more often broken up, than those having one or more children and/or being religious. The negative effect of parental divorce, marriage in very young ages and cohabitation before the marriage was found only in Hungary only, while the calendar period-effect was experienced in Transylvania only. In Transylvania the Hungarian-Romanian marriages were much less stable than marriages in other ethnic composition.

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