Paper 'Parental background and union dissolution from a cross-national comparative perspective', presented by Anne Brons (NIDI) at the European Population Conference 2016, 31 August - 3 September, 2016, Mainz, Germany.Presented in Session 29. Divorce and union dissolution 1.Authors: Anne M. D. Brons, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)Juho Härkönen, Stockholm University