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The relationship between learning and family formation and dissolution was examined through a review of the literature that focused on education and family life in Great Britain and elsewhere. The following topics were examined: learning, marriage, and cohabitation; learning, dissolution, and divorce; changing patterns of childbearing in contemporary Britain; learning as a protective factor in parenthood; and education and late childbearing. The literature review yielded evidence that education, qualifications, and learning opportunities play a major part in all aspects of family formation and dissolution. The evidence documented that, as education extends for increasing numbers of people and careers become a defining feature of adult life for men and women alike, decisions about the timing of marriage and parenthood become more problematic. A theoretical framework in which to locate the relationship between family formation and learning was proposed. According to the framework, studies of th