Hypothesis

H1) LAT is more common among young people with liberal attitudes, highly educated people and among who lived previous broken relationship’s episodes. H2) The “leap of faith” needed for moving from a LAT relationship to a cohabiting one is greater than the one needed to transition from cohabitation to marriage. H3) Negative correlation between lat relationships  and Desire of a(nother) child. H4) LAT relationships have a negative impact on the realized fertility  in the short term

The link among LAT relationships and fertility intentions is already clear from the descriptive analysis and confirmed by the regression models. Taking a look of the agreements, LAT pretty agree about not having a(nother) child within two years. So there is a negatively correlation between being LAT and fertility and because LAT realtionship are growing in some Western Country like Germany, it’s extremly important to take in account this kind of relationship in the present and future studies about fertility.