The transformed opportunity structure individuals have experienced over the course of the 20th century has not only changed family life, but also led to increased educational requirements, higher expectations of social mobility in the labor market, and overall perceived prospects of a healthier life. Moreover, presence of generational transmission of family formation behavior such as cohabitation, age at first marriage and childbearing has been widely documented. Thus, it has become more appropriate to approach family life events in a non-linear manner by emphasizing the existence of various family formation pathways, and to study these pathways from a generational point of view. Drawing on a life course perspective and by means of rich multigenerational longitudinal data combined with data from the Danish central population registers, this study examines multigenerational transmission of family formation behavior in the Danish context.