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Title: Life Course Transitions of American Children: Parental Cohabitation, Marriage, and Single Motherhood
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Graefe, Deborah Roempke Lichter, Daniel T. |
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Life Course Transitions of American Children: Parental Cohabitation, Marriage, and Single Motherhood Demography 36,2 (May 1999): 205-217. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/u778278h0315u010/ Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Child Health; Cohabitation; Demography; Event History; Family Studies; Life Course; Marital Status; Marriage; Parents, Single Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The life course transitions into and from families headed by unmarried cohabiting couples for a recent cohort of American children are examined. Life table estimates, based on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth mother-child files, indicate about one in four children will live in a family headed by a cohabiting couple sometime during childhood. Economic uncertainty is an important factor determining whether children in single-parent families subsequently share a residence with a mother's unmarried partner. Moreover, virtually all children in cohabiting-couple families will experience rapid subsequent changes in family status. The estimates provide a point of departure for future work on children's exposure to parental cohabitation and its social and economic implications. |
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Graefe, Deborah Roempke and Daniel T. Lichter. "Life Course Transitions of American Children: Parental Cohabitation, Marriage, and Single Motherhood." Demography 36,2 (May 1999): 205-217.
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