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Change in the Stability of First Premarital Cohabitation Among Women in the United States, 1983-2013.
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- A Brief Report Comparing Younger and Older Cohabitors.Journal of marriage and the family · 2025Article
- Partnership trajectories preceding medically assisted reproduction.Population studies · 2024Article
- Cohabiting couple's economic organization and marriage patterns across social classes.Journal of marriage and the family · 2024Article
- Less Time for Health: Parenting, Work, and Time-Intensive Health Behaviors among Married or Cohabiting Men and Women in the United States.Journal of health and social behavior · 2023Article
- Cohabitation and Marriage Among Same-Sex Couples in the 2019 ACS and CPS: A Research Note.Demography · 2022Article
- Women's Divergent Union Transitions After Marital Dissolution in the United States.Population research and policy review · 2022Article
- The unequal consequences of family structures for infant health.Social science research · 2021Article
- Family Complexity and Children's Behavior Problems over Two U.S. Cohorts.Journal of marriage and the family · 2021Article
- A Research Brief on Prospective Marital Expectations among Cohabitors with Initial Marital Intentions.Journal of family issues · 2020Article
- Marriage and Union Formation in the United States: Recent Trends Across Racial Groups and Economic Backgrounds.Demography · 2020Article
- Trends in self-rated health by union status and education, 2000-2018.SSM - population health · 2020Article
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- The Demography of Families: A Review of Patterns and Change.Journal of marriage and the family · 2020Article
- Unintended Childbearing and Marital Instability: An Emphasis on Couples' Intentions.Journal of divorce & remarriage · 2020Article
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Abstract
The rapid growth in cohabitation over the past quarter-century necessitates studies of changes in the stability and outcomes of cohabitation. We utilized data from the 1988 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) and the most recent NSFG data from 2011-2013 to examine the outcomes of two comparable cohorts of first premarital cohabiting women (1983-1988 and 2006-2013). Our results showed that cohabitations formed between 2006 and 2013 lasted longer-18 months, on average-than those formed in the mid-1980s, which lasted for an average of 12 months. We found that the lengthening of cohabitation over time cuts across sociodemographic characteristics-race/ethnicity, education, and motherhood status-and resulted mostly from the declining rate of transitioning to marriage. We found some support for the diverging destinies perspective in that disparities in the outcomes of cohabitation by education and by cohabiting birth have widened over time. Our analyses showed that changes in the outcomes of first premarital cohabiting unions over the past three decades were not due to compositional shifts in cohabitors. These results demonstrate the evolving dynamics of cohabitation over a 30-year window.
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