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The influence of parents’ marital quality on adult children’s attitudes toward marriage and its alternatives: Main and moderating effects
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Demography (2006) 43 (4): 659–672.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Mick Cunningham; Arland Thornton Abstract Drawing on a panel study of parents and children, we investigate linkages between parents’ marital quality and adult children’s attitudes toward a range of family issues, including premarital sex, cohabitation, lifelong singlehood, and divorce. We...
View articletitled, The influence of parents’ <span class="search-highlight">marital</span> <span class="search-highlight">quality</span> on adult children’s attitudes toward marriage and its alternatives: Main and moderating effects
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Parents’ Marital Quality and Children’s Transition to Adulthood
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 195–220.
Published: 31 January 2020
... dimensions of parents’ marriages. 10 12 2019 31 01 2020 © Population Association of America 2019 2019 Intergenerational relationships Marital quality Education Marriage Transition to adulthood The emotional bond between spouses is a critical component of family life, yet we...
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Investigating the mechanism of marital mortality reduction: The transition to widowhood and quality of health care
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 605–625.
Published: 01 August 2009
.... , & Bultena G.L. ( 1976 ). Sex Differences in Intimate Friendships of Old Age . Journal of Marriage and the Family , 38 , 739 – 47 . 10.2307/350693 Prigerson H.G. , Maciejewski P.K. , & Rosenheck R.A. ( 1999 ). The Effects of Marital Dissolution and Marital Quality on Health...
View articletitled, Investigating the mechanism of <span class="search-highlight">marital</span> mortality reduction: The transition to widowhood and <span class="search-highlight">quality</span> of health care
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Policy-Induced Fertility Suppression and Marital Satisfaction: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in China
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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 2027–2051.
Published: 01 December 2024
... dynamics, such as marital quality. This study seeks to bridge this gap by investigating the influence of the shift to the universal two-child policy on marital satisfaction among Chinese couples. Our argument revolves around married adults’ perceived marital utility rather than the direct impact of policy...
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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
... artifacts caused by data weaknesses in the NSFG. 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2010 2010 Unobserved Heterogeneity Marital Quality Marital Dissolution Marital Disruption Marital Stability References Amato P.R. , & Booth A. ( 1995 ). Changes...
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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
... in marriages (Greenstein and Davis 2006 ): in this setting, as wives become more educated, the gap between spouses’ education tends to shrink (Stash and Hannum 2001 ). Increased educational homogeny has been found to enhance marital quality and increase barriers to marital dissolution in the United States...
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View articletitled, Predictors of <span class="search-highlight">Marital</span> Dissolution During a Period of Rapid Social Change: Evidence From South Asia
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Direct and Indirect Effects of Unilateral Divorce Law on Marital Stability
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2103–2126.
Published: 30 October 2014
... control for age at marriage, which is used as indicator for match quality. Moreover, we find that UDL particularly affects marital stability in the presence of children. 2 10 2014 30 10 2014 © Population Association of America 2014 2014 Divorce Family law Family economics...
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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
... 1989 15 6 1989 © Population Association of America 1990 1990 Family Size Marital Satisfaction Marital Quality Child Rear Marital Dissolution References Albrecht , S. L. , Bahr , H. M. , & Goodman , K. L. ( 1983 ). Divorce and Remarriage-Problems...
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Emotional Variation and Fertility Behavior
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 437–458.
Published: 08 February 2017
... in individuals’ community context and nonfamily experiences on marital processes, including the quality of the husband-wife relationship (Allendorf and Ghimire 2013 ; Ghimire et al. 2006 ; Hoelter et al. 2004 ; Thornton and Lin 1994 ; Yabiku 2004 , 2005 , 2006 ). Thus, failure to consider the exogenous...
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Mate availability and unmarried parent relationships
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 555–571.
Published: 01 August 2008
... they are associated with lower quality childbearing partners (in economic terms) and lower quality relationships. If marriage markets affect the economic quality of childbearing partners, the quality of parent relationships, and marital transitions after a birth, these processes have implica- tions for child well...
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1717–1742.
Published: 04 November 2016
...: some breakups are especially painful, others are less so, and some might even bring relief from a stressful or unhappy situation. Following this idea, researchers have studied moderators such as gender (Simon 2002 ), age (Williams and Umberson 2004 ), marital quality (Kalmijn and Monden 2006...
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Paternal involvement with adolescents in intact families: The influence of fathers over the life course
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Demography (1998) 35 (2): 201–216.
Published: 01 May 1998
... and are selec- tive of all families in the United States. Parents' educational levels are high and marital quality is relatively high-85% of the children were in families with low to moderate marital conflict (see Table 1). To account for the complexity of the sample design and the selective nature of our...
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African-American marriage in 1910: Beneath the surface of census data
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Demography (1992) 29 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 1992
...Samuel H. Preston; Suet Lim; S. Philip Morgan Abstract This paper examines the quality of information about marital status, marital duration, and marriage order among African-American women in the U.S. Census of 1910. It compares the reported prevalence of widowhood to estimates of widowhood based...
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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
..., such as extramarital sex, communication difficulties, incompatibility, not spending enough time at home, and disagreements over money (Bloom et al. 1985 ; Burns 1984 ; Cleek and Pearson 1985 ; Kitson and Sussman 1982 ; Spanier and Thompson 1987 ). Childbearing is associated with declines in marital quality...
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Wealth and Divorce
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Demography (2023) 60 (1): 147–171.
Published: 01 February 2023
..., providing couples with economic resources they can use to improve their marital quality, thereby lowering their divorce risk. Alternatively, wealth may stabilize marriages through its symbolic value, allowing couples who have achieved the economic success expected of married couples to receive more social...
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Job Quality and the Educational Gradient in Entry Into Marriage and Cohabitation
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 451–476.
Published: 07 January 2019
... data on the 1980–1984 U.S. birth cohort from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to examine the relationships between men’s and women’s job quality and their entry into marital or cohabiting unions. We advance existing literature by moving beyond basic measures of employment and earnings...
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Why are cohabiting relationships more violent than marriages?
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Demography (2006) 43 (1): 127–140.
Published: 01 February 2006
... . In D. Finkelhor , R. Gelles , G. Hotaling , & M.A. Straus (Eds.), The Dark Side of Families: Current Family Violence Research (pp. 151 – 65 ). Beverly Hills, CA : Sage . Glenn , N. ( 1990 ). Quantitative Research on Marital Quality in the 1980s: A Critical...
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Intimate Partner Violence in the Great Recession
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Demography (2016) 53 (2): 471–505.
Published: 22 March 2016
... and quality. Decades later, Conger and his colleagues extended this work by documenting how income loss and economic hardship generated by the Farm Crisis of the 1980s led to feelings of economic strain and marital conflict (e.g., Conger et al. 1990 , 1992 ). Together, these two bodies of work gave rise...
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Transitions From Sexual Relationships Into Cohabitation and Beyond
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Demography (2018) 55 (2): 511–534.
Published: 15 February 2018
... commitment to their partners (Sawhill 2014 ; Stanley et al. 2006 ). Various studies have suggested that rapid relationship progression reduces dedication, is associated with lower marital quality (should couples wed), and adversely affects parenting (Cherlin 2009 ; Glenn 2002 ; Sassler et al. 2012...
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Marital Status and Mothers’ Time Use: Childcare, Housework, Leisure, and Sleep
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 107–133.
Published: 08 February 2018
... (ATUS). We found marital status differentiated housework, leisure, and sleep time, but did not influence the amount of time that mothers provided childcare. Net of the number of employment hours, married mothers did more housework and slept less than never-married and divorced mothers, counter...
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