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Title: Does Family Complexity in Childhood Explain Race-Ethnic Disparities in Multipartner Fertility?
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Hays, Jake Guzzo, Karen Benjamin |
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Does Family Complexity in Childhood Explain Race-Ethnic Disparities in Multipartner Fertility? Presented: Austin TX, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2019 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Childhood; Family Structure; Fertility, Multiple Partners; Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We investigate whether family complexity is transmitted across generations, and whether such a process may explain higher levels of multipartner fertility (MPF) among Blacks and Hispanics. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 cohort, we test whether family complexity--which encompasses family structure (living with two biological parents until age 18) and the presence of half- or step-siblings--in adolescence predicts higher-order births with a new partner versus a prior partner, with a focus on race-ethnicity. We find that those who lived in a non-two biological parent household, regardless of whether they had half- or step-siblings, are at an increased risk childbearing with a new partner. Family structure and sibling configuration does not mediate race-ethnic differences in the odds of MPF in adulthood. Instead, race is a moderator: family complexity in adolescence predicts childbearing with a new partner for Hispanics and Whites, but not for Blacks. |
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Bibliography Citation
Hays, Jake and Karen Benjamin Guzzo. "Does Family Complexity in Childhood Explain Race-Ethnic Disparities in Multipartner Fertility?" Presented: Austin TX, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2019. |