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Author: Hollander, Dore
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Having a Premarital Birth Reduces the Likelihood a Woman Will Marry Family Planning Perspectives 27,5 (September-October 1995): 221-222. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2136281 Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Women Publisher: Alan Guttmacher Institute Keyword(s): Childbearing, Adolescent; Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Family Studies; Marital Status; Marriage; National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG); Poverty; Pregnancy, Adolescent; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Data from four large U.S. surveys (National Survey of Family Growth, 1988, 8,450 women; National Survey of Families and Households, 1987-1988, 13,017 women and men; National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1989, 5,369 women; National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women, 1987, 3,679 women) indicate that premarital childbearing reduces the likelihood that a woman will marry by 9-41% compared to childless women. When women who marry within six months of giving birth were excluded from the calculation, on the assumption that they married the child's father, premarital birth was associated with a 20-53% reduction in the likelihood of marriage. The likelihood of marriage is further reduced if the woman is on welfare. The obstacle to marriage does not appear to be associated with the stigma of premarital childbirth, the inability of the woman to participate in activities in which she is likely to meet men, or the loss of Aid to Families with Dependent Children which occurs upon marriage. The researchers found that these women generally did not have children as a result of poor marriage prospects; instead, the unintended childbirth derailed plans for marriage. They also found that premarital childbearing was related to an increased risk of subsequent poverty, both among women who never marry and those who marry but experience later marital disruption. Premarital childbearing resulted in adverse consequences for both the mother and the child in terms of education and poverty. |
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Hollander, Dore. "Having a Premarital Birth Reduces the Likelihood a Woman Will Marry." Family Planning Perspectives 27,5 (September-October 1995): 221-222.
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Upward Mobility Benefits White Women's Infants, But Not Black Women's Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 39,1 (March 2007): 60-61. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1363/39060_207/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Alan Guttmacher Institute Keyword(s): Birth Outcomes; Birthweight; Discrimination, Racial/Ethnic; Family Income; Mobility, Economic; Mobility, Social; Poverty; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Racial Differences; Socioeconomic Factors Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Children born to white women who grew up in poverty but whose economic situation improved by adulthood have reduced odds of being low-birth-weight; in an analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), this association was unaffected by the inclusion of maternal background characteristics and health-related behaviors during pregnancy. The same relationship does not hold for infants born to blacks, however. Rather, their likelihood of being low-birth-weight is associated with maternal marital status, household composition at the time of the birth and weight gain during pregnancy. See: Colen CG et al., Maternal upward socioeconomic mobility and black-white disparities in infant birthweight, American Journal of Public Health, 2006, 96(11):2032-2039. |
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Bibliography Citation
Hollander, Dore. "Upward Mobility Benefits White Women's Infants, But Not Black Women's." Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 39,1 (March 2007): 60-61. |