Living Together Unmarried: What Do We Know About Cohabiting Families?

Rose-Greenland, Fiona; Smock, Pamela J.

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“…Conversely, involvement rates for women for cohabitation and marriage in this sample were similar to data from a nationally representative sample of young women (Amato et al, 2008). These patterns also reflect national trends suggesting that cohabitation is common and often precedes marriage in young adulthood (Rose-Greenland & Smock, 2013). Taken together, the pattern suggests the need for future studies to examine individual and contextual factors that contribute to romantic relationship experiences.…”

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“…For example, scholars found that Mexican-origin older adolescents are more likely to be involved in dating relationships than younger adolescents (Tyrell et al, 2015). National trends show that older youth are more likely to initiate sexual intercourse, cohabitate, and become engaged and marry than younger adolescents (CDC, 2013; Rose-Greenland & Smock, 2013). Moreover, sexual socialization within the family typically is consistent with traditional gender role norms (e.g., emphasis on delay of sexual initiation for girls; Raffaelli & Iturbide, 2009); thus, we examined variation in romantic experiences by gender.…”

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Romantic Relationship Experiences from Late Adolescence to Young Adulthood: The Role of Older Siblings in Mexican-Origin Families

Wheeler

Killoren

Whiteman

et al. 2015

J Youth Adolescence

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Youth's experiences with romantic relationships during adolescence and young adulthood have far reaching implications for future relationships, health, and well-being; yet, although scholars have examined potential peer and parent influences, we know little about the role of siblings in youth's romantic relationships. Accordingly, this study examined the prospective longitudinal links between Mexican-origin older and younger siblings' romantic relationship experiences and variation by sibling structural and relationship characteristics (i.e., sibling age and gender similarity, younger siblings' modeling) and cultural values (i.e., younger siblings' familism values). Data from 246 Mexican-origin families with older (M = 20.65 years; SD = 1.57; 50% female) and younger (M = 17.72 years; SD = .57; 51% female) siblings were used to examine the likelihood of younger siblings' involvement in dating relationships, sexual relations, cohabitation, and engagement/marriage with probit path analyses. Findings revealed older siblings' reports of involvement in a dating relationship, cohabitation, and engagement/marriage predicted younger siblings' relationship experiences over a two-year period. These links were moderated by sibling age spacing, younger siblings' reports of modeling and familism values. Our findings suggest the significance of social learning dynamics as well as relational and cultural contexts in understanding the links between older and younger siblings' romantic relationship experiences among Mexican-origin youth.

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confidence: 99%

Romantic Relationship Experiences from Late Adolescence to Young Adulthood: The Role of Older Siblings in Mexican-Origin Families

Wheeler

Killoren

Whiteman

et al. 2015

J Youth Adolescence

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“…Like previous studies of union transitions more generally, their study emphasized the large role of ethnoracial and socioeconomic background (see reviews by Raley and Sweeney, 2009; Rose-Greenland and Smock, 2013; Surra and Boelter, 2013; for a recent review of the educational gradient of childbearing within cohabiting unions in Europe, see Perelli-Harris et al, 2010). 6 The past decade or two has been marked by diverging patterns of marriage and family formation between historically disadvantaged minorities and middle-class and affluent whites.…”

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“…Moreover, 22 percent of all first U.S. births – more than one in five – occurred within cohabiting unions, up from 12.4 percent in 2002 (see also Copen, Daniels, and Mosher, 2013). Cohabitation clearly has become an increasingly important context for childbearing and childrearing in America (Edin and Tach, 2012; Sassler, Miller, and Favinger 2009; Rose-Greenland and Smock, 2013). Antiquated stereotypes of single mothers – raising children on their own – are inconsistent with new evidence that nonmarital births increasingly involve two co-residential parents who presumably share expenses and parental obligations.…”

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Cohabitation, post-conception unions, and the rise in nonmarital fertility

Lichter

Sassler

Turner

2014

Social Science Research

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The majority of U.S. nonmarital births today are to cohabiting couples. This study focuses on transitions to cohabitation or marriage among pregnant unmarried women during the period between conception and birth. Results using the newly-released 2006–2010 National Survey of Family Growth show that nonmarital pregnancy is a significant precursor to cohabitation before childbirth (18 percent), exceeding transitions to marriage (5 percent) by factor of over three. For pregnant women, the boundaries between singlehood, cohabitation, and marriage are highly fluid. The results also reveal substantial variation in post-conception cohabiting and marital unions; e.g., disproportionately low percentages of black single and cohabiting women transitioned into marriage, even when conventional social and economic risk factors are controlled. The multivariate analyses also point to persistent class differences in patterns of family formation, including patterns of cohabitation and marriage following conception. Poorly educated women, in particular, are much more likely to become pregnant as singles living alone or as partners in cohabiting unions. But compared with college-educated women, pregnancies are less likely to lead to either cohabitation or marriage. This paper highlights the conceptual and technical challenges involved in making unambiguous interpretations of nonmarital fertility during a period of rising nonmarital cohabitation.

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Is Stepfamily Status Associated With Cohabiting and Married Women’s Fertility Behaviors?

Guzzo

2017

Demography

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Children from prior relationships potentially complicate fertility decision-making in new cohabitations and marriages. On the one hand, the "value of children" perspective suggests that unions with and without stepchildren have similar-and deliberate-reasons for shared childbearing. On the other hand, multipartnered fertility (MPF) research suggests that childbearing across partnerships is often unintended. Using the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth and event-history models, I examine the role of stepfamily status on cohabiting and married women's fertility and birth intendedness, with attention to union type and stepfamily configuration. Adjusting for covariates, women in stepfamily unions are more likely to have a first shared birth in a union than women in unions in which neither partner has children from past relationships, but stepfamily births are less likely to be intended than unintended. Further, this association varies by union type: married women have similar birth risks across stepfamily status, but births are less likely to be intended in marital stepfamilies. For cohabitors, women in a stepfamily are more likely to have a birth than women in nonstepfamily unions, with no differences in intendedness. Configuration (whose children and how many) also matters; for instance, women with one child from a past relationship are more likely to have a birth and to have an intended than unintended birth than women with other stepfamily configurations. It appears that children from either partner's prior relationships influences subsequent fertility decision-making, undermining the utility of the "value of children" perspective for explaining childbearing behaviors in complex families.

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Living Together Unmarried: What Do We Know About Cohabiting Families?

Cited by 17 publications

References 87 publications

Romantic Relationship Experiences from Late Adolescence to Young Adulthood: The Role of Older Siblings in Mexican-Origin Families

Romantic Relationship Experiences from Late Adolescence to Young Adulthood: The Role of Older Siblings in Mexican-Origin Families

Cohabitation, post-conception unions, and the rise in nonmarital fertility

Is Stepfamily Status Associated With Cohabiting and Married Women’s Fertility Behaviors?

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