In 2015, Nicholas Eberstadt, political economist at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, described the Second Demographic Transition as one in which "long, stable marriages are out, and divorce or separation are in, along with serial cohabitation and increasingly contingent liaisons."
2015年，华盛顿美国企业研究所(American Enterprise Institute)的政治经济学家尼古拉斯 · 埃伯施塔特(Nicholas Eberstadt)将第二次人口转型描述为"长期稳定的婚姻已经结束，离婚或分居正在兴起，伴随着一系列的同居和越来越多的偶然关系。