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Author: McNamee, Catherine
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McNamee, Catherine |
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The Latino Remarriage Conundrum : Explaining the Divergence in Latino and White Marital Transitions in Remarriage Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, 2012. Also: https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/ETD-UT-2012-08-6009 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Texas at Austin Keyword(s): Ethnic Differences; Family Influences; Hispanics; Marital History/Transitions; National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG); Racial Differences; Religion; Remarriage Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the Latino remarriage conundrum: Latinos have first marriage and divorce rates similar to whites but notably lower remarriage rates than whites. What explains this divergence in race, ethnicity and nativity (R-E-N) differences for remarriage? The question is particularly intriguing because the R-E-N patterns for first marriage and divorce are often explained as a consequence of Latinos having a cultural orientation that promotes pronuptial values. Despite having socioeconomic disadvantage compared to whites, this view suggests that Latinos marry and divorce at rates similar to whites because of their strong cultural attachment to marriage. The conundrum is how could pronuptial values fully account for Latino-white patterns in marriage and divorce but not for remarriage? To investigate the Latino remarriage conundrum, I utilized a mixed method approach using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979-2010 (NLSY79), the National Survey of Family Growth 2006-2010 (NSFG) surveys and 23 in-depth interviews with recently divorced white and Latina women. I examined a variety of economic, cultural, and social factors to explore why remarriage patterns differ from marriage and divorce among R-E-N groups. Findings suggest that religious affiliation, parental reactions to post-divorce dating, and socioeconomic preferences for remarriage influence white-Latino remarriage differences. |
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McNamee, Catherine. The Latino Remarriage Conundrum : Explaining the Divergence in Latino and White Marital Transitions in Remarriage. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, 2012.. |
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White and Latino Remarriage Differences in the United States: A Case for Moving beyond the Catholic Assumption Presented: Dublin, Ireland, Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS) International Conference, October 2015 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Keyword(s): Ethnic Differences; Hispanic Studies; Religious Influences; Remarriage Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In the United States, Latinos and non-Hispanic Whites have similar first marriage and divorce rates, but Latinos remarry at lower rates than Whites. Although Latinos are disproportionately more Catholic than Whites and Latinos remarry less than Whites, assuming that religion is driving the remarriage difference could be a religious congruence fallacy, which occurs when religion is assumed to be the driving influence behind a behaviour actually shaped by other forces. The present study utilizes the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and discrete-time event history analysis to examine the influence of religious affiliation and attendance on ethnic remarriage differences. The findings suggest that Catholicism does not account for the lower rates of remarriage of Latinos compared to Whites. Taking into account religious affiliation had minimal to no effects on the odd ratios of 119 Latinos compared to Whites; furthermore, the odds remained significantly lower for Latinos compared to Whites, suggesting that Catholicism cannot explain White-Latino remarriage differences. These findings provide strong evidence for dispelling the previously untested but frequently assumed Catholic influence on ethnic differences in remarriage and emphasizes caution toward attaching religion to Latino family behaviour in the U.S. |
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McNamee, Catherine. "White and Latino Remarriage Differences in the United States: A Case for Moving beyond the Catholic Assumption." Presented: Dublin, Ireland, Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS) International Conference, October 2015. |
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McNamee, Catherine Amato, Paul R. |
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Nonresident Father Involvement with Children and Divorced Women’s Likelihood of Remarriage Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Child Support; Divorce; Fathers, Absence; Remarriage Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Although remarriage is a relatively common transition, we know little about how nonresident fathers affect divorced mothers’ entry into remarriage. Using the 1979-2010 rounds of the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979, we examined the likelihood of remarriage for divorced mothers (n=882) by nonresident father contact with children and payment of child support. The findings suggest that maternal remarriage is positively associated with nonresident father contact but not related to receiving child support. |
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McNamee, Catherine and Paul R. Amato. "Nonresident Father Involvement with Children and Divorced Women’s Likelihood of Remarriage." Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014. |
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McNamee, Catherine Amato, Paul R. King, Valarie |
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Nonresident Father Involvement with Children and Divorced Women's Likelihood of Remarriage Journal of Marriage and Family 76,4 (August 2014): 862-874. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12118/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online Keyword(s): Child Support; Divorce; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Involvement; Mothers; Remarriage Although remarriage is a relatively common transition, little is known about how nonresident fathers affect divorced mothers' entry into remarriage. Using the 1979–2010 rounds of the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979, the authors examined the likelihood of remarriage for divorced mothers (N = 882) by nonresident father contact with children and payment of child support. The findings suggest that maternal remarriage is positively associated with nonresident father contact but not related to receiving child support. |
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McNamee, Catherine, Paul R. Amato and Valarie King. "Nonresident Father Involvement with Children and Divorced Women's Likelihood of Remarriage." Journal of Marriage and Family 76,4 (August 2014): 862-874.
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