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Dissolution of First Unions in Colombia, Panama, and Peru
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Demography (1981) 18 (4): 659–679.
Published: 01 November 1981
... the factors affecting union stability for both consensual unions and legal marriages. In spite of high dissolution rates, remarriage rates in all three countries are also high, as are the percentages of time spent in a union. Hence, the potential effects of voluntary disruption of unions on fertility appear...
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Entry or exit? A transition-probability approach to explaining the high prevalence of single motherhood among black women
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Demography (1999) 36 (3): 369–376.
Published: 01 August 1999
... between blacks and whites in the prevalence of single motherhood. The remainder of the difference is due to black single mothers’ much lower rates of exit through union formation and to their very high rates of reentry through dissolution of these later unions. Entry and exit rates through the 1990s imply...
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Thinking about change in illegitimacy ratios: United States, 1963–1983
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Demography (1988) 25 (2): 235–247.
Published: 01 May 1988
... black and white populations did "age" during this interval, displacing women from the age groups with high illegitimacy ratios to those with illegitimacy ratios that are lower (see Table 3), age Change in Illegitimacy Ratios 239 Table1. Illegitimacy Ratios and Rates, Marital Fertility, and Marital...
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Demography (2025) 62 (1): 291–310.
Published: 01 February 2025
... relationships may be minimal given the high dissolution rate of this union type. This study builds on social exchange theory by demonstrating how experiences and perceived barriers, such as pregnancy scares, can discourage relationship dissolution by enhancing a couple's perception of their relationship's...
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View articletitled, Make It or Break It? Pregnancy Scares and Romantic Relationship <span class="search-highlight">Dissolution</span>
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The relationship between cohabitation and divorce: Selectivity or causal influence?
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Demography (1992) 29 (3): 357–374.
Published: 01 August 1992
... in recent years by studies conducted in several Western countries including Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, and the United States. Although these studies are consistent with expectations of high dissolution rates among cohabitors before marriage, they provide no evidence that cohabitation experience leads...
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Unmarried cohabitation and union stability: Testing the role of diffusion using data from 16 European countries
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Demography (2006) 43 (2): 203–221.
Published: 01 May 2006
... processes might still be operative, but certainly to a lesser extent than when the proportion of cohabitors is either very low or very high. As a result, the difference in union dissolution rates of people who marry after cohabitation and of people who marry straightaway will be much smaller. At the same...
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A comparison of the probability of the dissolution of first and second marriages
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Demography (1978) 15 (3): 345–359.
Published: 01 August 1978
..., volume 15, number 3, August 1978 first and second marriages. However, for groups defined by race, age at first mar- riage, and education, no high risk group can be identified conclusively in the case of second marriages. Dissolution rates for second marriages are very similar within dichotomous...
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The influence of individual and historical time on marital dissolution
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Demography (1987) 24 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 1987
... tbe proportion of high-risk marriages among tbe surviving unions. Althougb separation and divorce rates are consistently observed to decline with marital duration, marital satisfaction and happiness bave been shown to decline during tbe first few years of marriage and then either level off or increase...
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Predictors of Marital Dissolution During a Period of Rapid Social Change: Evidence From South Asia
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1351–1375.
Published: 13 September 2016
... settings, divorce rates were high in the earlier part of the twentieth century and then fell as the social context and marital practices changed (Cammack and Heaton 2011 ; Guest 1992 ; Hirschman and Teerawichitchainan 2003 ; Jones et al. 1994 ; Thornton and Lin 1994 ; Yang and Yen 2011 ). Those...
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A Hazard Model Analysis of the Covariates of Marriage Dissolution in Canada
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Demography (1987) 24 (3): 395–406.
Published: 01 August 1987
... show that as many as 48 percent of those married in 1970will eventually divorce if the annual rates of divorce in the 1980s and 1990s stay the same as they were in 1977 (cited in Cherlin, 1981). Others have pointed out that such high levels based on hypothetical cohorts may actually never be achieved...
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Marital stability throughout the child-rearing years
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Demography (1990) 27 (1): 55–63.
Published: 01 February 1990
... low risk of dissolution. The rate then increases precip- Marital Stability and Child Rearing 3)11 - No children - 1s1 child 234 5 6 7 8 9 ID tl 2 Marital Duration (in years) Figure I. Dissolution Rate After the Birth of Children 59 itously and remains high between the third and seventh years...
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Reassessing the link between premarital cohabitation and marital instability
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 719–733.
Published: 01 August 2010
... dissolution. Furthermore, Liefbroer and Dourleijn (2006) studied 16 European countries and found that premarital cohabitation is associated with marital dissolution only in countries with either very high or very low rates of premari- tal cohabitation. In the United States, Phillips and Sweeney (2005...
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The effect of children on marital dissolution
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Demography (1977) 14 (3): 265–272.
Published: 01 August 1977
... is that divorce and separation rates are moderately lower for those who have children than for the child- less (Jacobson, 1950; Monahan, 1955). The reasons why couples with children have moderately lower rates of marital dissolution (divorce and separation com- bined) are not clear, however. In this pa- per, I...
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Comment on “the rise of divorce and separation in the United States, 1880–1990”
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Demography (1997) 34 (4): 467–472.
Published: 01 November 1997
... of mari- tal dissolutions in our society as reflecting unhappiness with particular marriages rather than as a decrease in the desir- ability of marriage (Cherlin 1992:52). First, U.S. society has always had high remarriage rates, which suggests that mar- riage is highly valued (Cherlin 1992:27-28). While...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 161–186.
Published: 01 February 2022
... error rate stabilized around 35% when at least 500 trees were employed (see Figure A.3 in the online Appendix C ). We chose to use 1,000 trees, which yielded a final OOB error rate of 34%. Note that although it increases computational time, choosing a high number of trees does not create problems...
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View articletitled, What Tears Couples Apart: A Machine Learning Analysis of Union <span class="search-highlight">Dissolution</span> in Germany
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The Compositional and Institutional Sources of Union Dissolution for Married and Unmarried Parents in the United States
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1789–1818.
Published: 10 May 2013
... on the degree to which unmarried couples who share children behave like married couple families over time—whether they stay together or remain active in their children’s lives. On this score, nonmarital unions bear little resemblance to marriages. Although U.S. divorce rates are high relative to other...
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Marriage or dissolution? Union transitions among poor cohabiting women
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Demography (2006) 43 (2): 223–240.
Published: 01 May 2006
... is counted against the grant. Poor couples often must choose between being married without welfare or being unmarried with welfare (Manning and Smock 1995; Mof tt, Reville, and Winkler 1998). Mof tt et al. (1998) found that cohabi- tation rates were quite high among women on Aid to Families with Dependent...
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Recent trends in marital disruption
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Demography (1989) 26 (1): 37–51.
Published: 01 February 1989
... be foolish to jump to that conclusion from this brief deviation from the trend. The current rate represents a very high level of marital disruption. Moreover, there are a number of reasons why a leveling Recent Trends in Marital Disruption 39 of divorce rates, or even a slight decline, might occur without...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 175–195.
Published: 19 January 2012
... of union instability for fertility? Our analyses of observed family events in France confirm the pathways through which union formation and dissolution may influence completed family size. First, unions produce births. First-birth rates are five times as high and second-birth rates are twice as high...
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Proportional Hazards Life Table Models: An Illustrative Analysis of Socio-Demographic Influences on Marriage Dissolution in the United States
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Demography (1981) 18 (2): 181–200.
Published: 01 May 1981
... decreases as educa- tion increases, although for whites the dif- ference between those who complete high school and those who have attended col- lege is not significant. Those who have had an illegitimate birth have a much higher dissolution rate than women who were not pregnant by the time they mar- ried...
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