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ArticlePloS one2018

The intergenerational transmission of partnering.

Claire M Kamp Dush, Rachel Arocho, Sara Mernitz, Kyle Bartholomew

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Article in PloS one, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Claire M Kamp DushDepartment of Human Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-4307-6825
Rachel ArochoCarolina Population Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America.
Sara MernitzPopulation Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States of America.
Kyle BartholomewPay Tel, Greensboro, NC, United States of America.

Funding

Training Program in Population StudiesT32HD007081 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN · PI Aprile Dawn Benner, Abigail Mae Weitzman · 1985 to 2026
$6.8M
Scientific & Technical CoreP2CHD042849 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI Elizabeth T. Gershoff · 2017 to 2026
$5.2M
NICHD NIH HHS P2C HD042849NICHD NIH HHS T32 HD007081
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As divorce and cohabitation dissolution in the US have increased, partnering has expanded to the point that sociologists describe a merry-go-round of partners in American families. Could one driver of the increase in the number of partners be an intergenerational transmission of partnering? We discuss three theoretical perspectives on potential mechanisms that would underlie an intergenerational transmission of partnering: the transmission of economic hardship, the transmission of marriageable characteristics and relationship skills, and the transmission of relationship commitment. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Child and Young Adult study (NLSY79 CYA) and their mothers in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79), we examined the intergenerational transmission of partnering, including both marital and cohabitating unions, using prospective measures of family and economic instability as well as exploiting sibling data to try to identify potential mechanisms. Even after controlling for maternal demographic characteristics and socioeconomic factors, the number of maternal partners was positively associated with offspring's number of partners. Hybrid sibling Poisson regression models that examined sibling differential experiences of maternal partners indicated that there were no differences between siblings who witnessed more or fewer maternal partners. Overall, results suggested that the transmission of poor marriageable characteristics and relationship skills from mother to child may warrant additional attention as a potential mechanism through which the number of partners continues across generations.

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Intergenerational RelationsAdolescentChildDivorceFemaleHumansMaleMothersSchoolsSexual PartnersSiblingsSocioeconomic FactorsSpousesUnited StatesYoung Adult

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PMID30422991
PMCPMC6233917

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