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Principle components analysis of life course events in France Belgium Germany and the Netherlands revealed that religiosity civil and sexual morality and traditional family orientations were negatively associated with cohabitation and positively related to earlier parenthood and more than two children. The findings were weaker among younger cohorts. In the study period of 1981-90 attachment to religious and moral issues remained the same or increased to slightly stronger family orientations. The 1961-72 cohort has not continued the trend toward family orientation. Measures of the political right were found as expected to be negatively associated with cohabitation but unexpectedly were found to be positively associated with postponed parenthood and less progression to larger family sizes for men. Ingleharts materialism which was construed to mean preoccupation with economic and physical security and not conspicuous consumption was a significant predictor of earlier parenthood and for women a progression toward more than two children. Factor III (intolerance of ethnic minorities authority in work and conventional life style) and Factor IV (Ingleharts materialism) changed for all cohorts. Movement was in the direction of politically right orientations more consumerism and Maslowian materialism. Few differences between cohorts born after 1930 were evident. The evidence suggested that ideational shifts and reversals in religiosity civil and sexual morality and traditional family values have not yet been exhibited. These shifts were also subject to economic conditions which were not accounted for in the analysis. It is likely that the variety in forms of family formation will continue but the radical shift in orientations was over: stability in diversity will probably best describe family formation patterns.
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