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Title: Parental Cohabitation, Marriage, and Single Motherhood: Life Course Transitions of American Children
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Graefe, Deborah Roempke |
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Parental Cohabitation, Marriage, and Single Motherhood: Life Course Transitions of American Children Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 1997 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Childhood Education, Early; Childhood Residence; Children; Cohabitation; Families, Two-Parent; Life Course; Marriage; Motherhood; Parents, Single Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines, for the first time, the life course experiences of children living with nonmarried cohabiting couples, and subsequent transitions to married-couple and female-headed families. Using 1992 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) merged child-mother data, life histories are constructed for children born during the 1980s, a time during which cohabitation before first marriage increased dramatically. Findings show almost 6 percent of American children are born into nonmarital cohabiting families, and more than l-in-4 children will live in a cohabiting family by age 14. The probability of birth into a cohabiting family varies considerably by mothers' characteristics, with children of never-married single mothers 4 times as likely to be born into a cohabiting family as children of never-married single mothers. Despite its increasing importance, no previous study documents children's experiences with parental cohabitation or examines the etiology of transitions into and out of such unions. |
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Graefe, Deborah Roempke. "Parental Cohabitation, Marriage, and Single Motherhood: Life Course Transitions of American Children." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 1997. |