NDLI: Change in the Stability of Marital and Cohabiting Unions Following the Birth of a Child

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Author	Musick, Kelly Michelmore, Katherine
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	The share of births to cohabiting couples has increased dramatically in recent decades. How we evaluate the implications of these increases depends critically on change in the stability of cohabiting families. This study examines change over time in the stability of U.S. couples who have a child together, drawing on data from the 1995 and 2006–2010 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). We parse out the extent to which change in the stability of cohabiting and married families reflects change in couples’ behavior versus shifts in the characteristics of those who cohabit, carefully accounting for trajectories of cohabitation and marriage around the couple’s first birth. Multivariate event history models provide evidence of a weakening association between cohabitation and instability given that marriage occurs at some point before or after the couple’s first birth. The more recent data show statistically indistinguishable separation risks for couples who have a birth in marriage without ever cohabiting, those who cohabit and then have a birth in marriage, and those who have a birth in cohabitation and then marry. Cohabiting unions with children are significantly less stable when de-coupled from marriage, although the parents in this group also differ most from others on observed (and likely, unobserved) characteristics.
Starting Page	1463
Ending Page	1485
Page Count	23
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00703370
Journal	Demography
Volume Number	52
Issue Number	5
e-ISSN	15337790
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2015-09-18
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Marriage Cohabitation Nonmarital childbearing Union dissolution Family stability Demography Sociology Population Economics Medicine/Public Health Geography (general)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Demography

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