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Besharov, Douglas J. Sullivan, Timothy Sean |
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Welfare Reform and Marriage The Public Interest 125 (Fall 1996): 81-94. Also: http://www.nationalaffairs.com/public_interest/detail/welfare-reform-and-marriage Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: National Affairs Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Marriage; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. If divorced mothers frequently marry, what about unwed mothers, especially those who had their first babies as teenagers? We could find only one study on the subject, so we decided to explore this question ourselves using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). The NLSY began in 1979 as a national sample of 12,686 males and females, ages 14 to 22. The NLSY collects longitudinal data on both the fertility and marriage of young women and tracks enough unwed teenage mothers to allow for statistically reliable analyses of various social, economic, and demographic factors. Importantly, it contains a relatively recent cohort of unwed mothers. We created a subsample of young women whose childbearing and marital histories we could follow: 2,783 women who were still participating in the survey in 1993 and who, at the time of the first interview in 1979, were under 20, had never been married, and had never given birth. Starting with 1979, we followed each of these women through subsequent surveys until they were 28 years old, between 1988 and 1993. |
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Bibliography Citation
Besharov, Douglas J. and Timothy Sean Sullivan. "Welfare Reform and Marriage." The Public Interest 125 (Fall 1996): 81-94.
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