Do differences in expectations and preferences explain racial/ethnic variation in family formation outcomes?

Carlson, Daniel L.

doi:10.1016/j.alcr.2015.05.002

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“…; Goldstein and Kenney ). In addition, family formation variation by race and ethnicity has grown since the 1970s (Carlson ; Cherlin ). The patterns we find by gender, race, and class may speak to an early point in these “diverging destinies” among the college educated.…”

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“…An underlying principle of marital horizons theory is that young adults have clear, distinct orientations to marriage that incorporate ideal marital time lines. Importantly, these “marriage mentalities” vary by gender, race, and class (Carlson ; Carroll et al. ; Halpern‐Meekin ; Willoughby and Hall ).…”

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“…There is also substantial evidence for racial and ethnic variation in ideal marital timing. Although Willoughby () found no difference in anticipated age at first marriage between white and non‐white young adults, most studies conclude that Asian and black young adults have slightly higher ages of ideal first marriage compared to both white and Hispanic or Latina/o young adults (Carlson ; Cheng and Landale ; Crissey ; East ; Fuller, Frost, and Burr ; Gassanov, Nicholson, and Koch‐Turner ; Manning, Longmore, and Giordano ; Plotnick ). Crissey (), for example, found that African American adolescents anticipated marrying later than whites, with no difference between white and Mexican adolescents.…”

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“…It is important to address the relationship between marriage ideals and hooking up given that both ideals and early sexual experiences are integrally tied to relationship pathways and family formation behaviors (Barr and Simons ; Willoughby ). From a life course perspective, gender, racial/ethnic, and/or social class variation in how students' marriage ideals influence sexual experiences may be tied to later demographic variation in relationship and family formation (Carlson ; Sassler ).…”

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Marriage Delay, Time to Play? Marital Horizons and Hooking Up in College

Allison

Risman

2017

Sociological Inquiry

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Previous research suggests that an increasing age at first marriage has contributed to the prevalence of sexual hookups on U.S. college campuses. In this article, we use life course and marital horizons theories to analyze the influence of ideal age at first marriage on hooking up among unmarried heterosexual college students. Analyses of the Online College Social Life Survey (N = 17,981) show a positive association between ideal age at first marriage and hookups for most students, but not for students whose mothers have no post-secondary education, Asian men, Asian women, and Latina women. Variation in ideal marriage timing does not account for gender, racial/ethnic, and class gaps in hookup participation. Results are discussed with reference to the role of sexuality in processes of stratification throughout young adulthood.

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2017

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“…Furthermore, although fertility timing expectations have been empirically useful, there are other theoretically important measures of ideation about fertility and parenthood that were not measured in the NLSY79 (Carlson, ). According to expectancy‐value theory, both expectations and values (including specific attitudes, preferences, and assessments of cost) are important predictors of behavior (Carlson, ; Feather & Newton, ; Wigfield & Eccles, ). Indeed, previous research has identified fertility attitudes and fertility expectations as distinct concepts.…”

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Teen Childbearing and Depression: Do Pregnancy Attitudes Matter?

Whitworth

2016

J of Marriage and Family

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Teen Childbearing and Depression: Do PregnancyAttitudes Matter?The relationship between teen childbearing and depression has been extensively studied; however, little is known about how young women's own attitudes toward becoming pregnant shape this association. This study used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to investigate whether the relationship between teen childbearing and adult depression is moderated by adolescent attitudes toward becoming pregnant. The results showed that although, on average, women who had first births between ages 16 and 19 experienced no more depressive symptoms in adulthood than women who had first births at age 20 or older, the relationship between teen childbearing and adult depression varied significantly based on adolescent pregnancy attitudes. When they had negative adolescent attitudes toward getting pregnant, teen mothers had similar levels of depression as adult mothers, but when they had positive adolescent pregnancy attitudes, teen mothers actually had fewer depressive symptoms than women with adult first births.

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Family communication about fertility preservation in adolescent males newly diagnosed with cancer

Olsavsky¹,

Theroux²,

Dattilo³

et al. 2021

Pediatric Blood & Cancer

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Background: Approximately half of male childhood cancer survivors experience fertility impairment, which can cause psychological distress. Sperm banking remains underutilized among adolescent males with cancer. Parent recommendation influences banking decisions, yet multi-informant studies have not been conducted to examine fertility preservation (FP) communication and decision making in this population. This study explored FP communication among mothers, fathers, and their male adolescents newly diagnosed with cancer.Procedure: Thirty-three male adolescents, 32 mothers, and 22 fathers completed semi-structured interviews 1-2 months after cancer diagnosis addressing this question: Tell me more about conversations you had about fertility preservation/sperm banking with your health care providers, parents/son, other family members, or anyone else. Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim for thematic content analysis. Results: Five process themes emerged: (1) reliance on health care team and social support networks to facilitate FP decisions (only parents); (2) withholding parental opinion and deferring the decision to the adolescent; (3) ease of communication (primarily adolescents); (4) communication barriers/facilitators; (5) not being present or not remembering details of FP conversations with health care providers (primarily fathers and adolescents). Four content themes included: (1) preference for biological (grand)parenthood; (2) consideration of adolescent's future partner's desire for Abbreviation: FP, fertility preservation.

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Do differences in expectations and preferences explain racial/ethnic variation in family formation outcomes?

Cited by 6 publications

References 43 publications

Marriage Delay, Time to Play? Marital Horizons and Hooking Up in College

Marriage Delay, Time to Play? Marital Horizons and Hooking Up in College

Teen Childbearing and Depression: Do Pregnancy Attitudes Matter?

Family communication about fertility preservation in adolescent males newly diagnosed with cancer

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