John Haskey

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Associate Member
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john.haskey@spi.ox.ac.uk

John Haskey held a Visiting Senior Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford from 2000 until recently, and is now an Associate Fellow. He has published statistical studies on family demography, including contributions to demographic journals and Family Law. He is a past President of the British Society for Population Studies, and was recently elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. 

Selected Publications

  • Living-Apart-Together in Britain: context and meaning, International Journal of Law in Context, 2, I, 2006, pp.37 – 48. (Cambridge University Press) 
  • Measuring family and household variables, in: Martin Bulmer, Julie Gibbs and Laura Hyman, (eds.) Social measurement through social surveys: an applied approach, Ashgate Publishing, 2010, pp. 9-27.  
  • Ethnicity and fertility in the United Kingdom (with co-author S. Dubuc) in: Understanding Population Trends and Processes, Volume 3: Ethnicity and Integration, Springer, ESRC, 2010, pp.63-81. 
  • Childlessness: Choice and Circumstances, in: Fertility Rates and Population Decline: No Time for Children? (eds. Ann Buchanan and Anna Rotkirch), Palgrave Macmillan, March 2013, pp. 62-81. 
  • Cohabitation and births outside marriage after 1970, in: Cohabitation and non-marital births in England and Wales, 1600-2012, ed. Rebecca Probert, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. pp.158-191.       
  • Marriage rites – trends in marriages by manner of solemnization and denomination in England and Wales, 1841-2012, in: Marriage Rites and rights eds. Joanna Miles, Perveez Mody and Rebecca Probert, Hart Publishing, 2015, pp. 19-56. 
  • Civil partnerships and same sex marriages in England and Wales: a social and demographic perspective, Family Law, January 2016, pp. 44-59. 
  • The best is yet to be? New partnerships formed by those of retirement age: demographic trends and self-assessed health, life satisfaction, and social participation, Family Law, September 2017, Volume 47, pp. 983-1001. 
  • A history of divorce law reform in England and Wales: evolution, revolution, or repetition? Family Law, November 2018, pp.1407-1425. 
  • Some scenarios on the numerical implications of the proposed new divorce reform legislation for England and Wales, Family Law, September 2019, pp.1040-1048. 
  • Brothers and sisters: a social and demographic perspective. in Brothers and Sisters: Sibling relationships across the life course. eds. Ann Buchanan and Anna Rotkirch, palgrave macmillan, January 2021, pp. 41-68. (Chapter 3 in Springer print and eBook) 
  • Perspectives on civil partnerships and marriages in England and Wales: aspects, attitudes and assessments, Family Law, June 2021, Volume 51, pp.743-888. 
  • Divorces by fact proven over the past half century in England and Wales: the historical context, statistical trends and future prospects. In: Divorce Reform Act 1969: Reflecting on 50 years. eds. Daniel Monk, Jo Miles, and Rebecca Probert. Bloomsbury, March 2022, pp.34-52. 
  • Families, partnerships, and relationships in England and Wales: trends and transitions.in: Family Matters: Essays in Honour of John Eekelaar (Festschrift), eds. Jens Scherpe and Stephen Gilmore, Intersentia, 2022, pp.367-385.   
  • The new unions of civil partnerships and same sex marriages in England and Wales – a demographic approach to developments, Family Law, May 2023, pp.554 - 565. 
  • Divorce and dissolution rates of the new unions of civil partnerships and same sex marriages in England and Wales – a demographic approach to developments, Family Law, June 2023. 
  • Demographic and social information collected from registration particulars of the new unions of marriages and civil partnerships in England and Wales – a free by-product or an incomplete picture? Family Law, July 2023, pp.757 – 760. 
  • Reducing conflict in divorce and dissolution by the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020: continuity, change or contrast? Family Law, December 2024, pp. 1470 – 1482. 
  • Issues debated in Parliament in the major divorce law reforms in England and Wales: a quantitative analysis, 2025. (working title - to be revised and submitted).  

 

  • ONS Populations Trends 109: One-parent families – and the dependent children living in them – in Great Britain. Haskey, John (2002). This article provides updated final estimates of the number of one- parent families, and of the number of dependent children living in them, from 1995 to 1997, inclusive, together with provisional estimates for 1998 to 2000.The existing methodology has been extended so that additional alternative estimates have been generated from which to assess the “best estimates”.The number of one- parent families in Great Britain is provisionally estimated at 1.75 million in 2000, and the number of dependent children living in those families as 2.9 million. View Online Download
  • ONS Population Trends 103: Cohabiting couples in Great Britain: accommodation sharing, tenure and property ownership. Haskey, John (2001). This article first considers some information from a pilot survey to test questions on past cohabiting unions which did not lead to marriage: when they started and finished; the reason why the couple stopped living together (either because the relationship ended, or because they stopped sharing the same accommodation, or both), and the corresponding durations.The article also analyses the key characteristics and immediate past accommodation history of couples who are currently cohabiting.In particular, patterns of tenure, property ownership and length of time cohabiting are explored - from a family law perspective. View Online Download