Marriage, Choice, and Couplehood in the Age of the Internet

Rosenfeld, Michael

doi:10.15195/v4.a20

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“…This raises obvious questions about the increased rationality of the dating process and whether internet dating leads to unions that are better matched, more satisfying, or more likely to last. There is limited research on how internet relationships begin, unfold, and end (Rosenfeld, ). Moving forward will require much greater collaboration and cooperation with internet dating sites.…”

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Cohabitation and Marriage: Complexity and Diversity in Union‐Formation Patterns

Sassler

Lichter

2020

J of Marriage and Family

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Nonmarital cohabitation and marriage are now fundamentally linked, a fact that is routinely reflected in current research on union formation. Unprecedented changes in the timing, duration, and sequencing of intimate co‐residential relationships have made the study of traditional marriage far more complex today than in the past. It is now clear that a white, middle‐class, American‐centric research template has become increasingly anachronistic. In this review article, we begin by providing an overview of contemporary theory, empirical approaches, and demographic trends in cohabitation and marriage, focusing primarily on the United States, but also distinguishing the U.S. from patterns found in other high‐income societies, including European countries, Canada, Australia, and in East Asia. We place the spotlight on the causes and consequences of union transitions. We identify the commonalities between cohabitation and marriage, but also key differences that are expressed unevenly across different populations and cultural groups. The rise in nonmarital cohabitation has upended conventional theoretical models and measurement approaches to the study of traditional marriage, complicating matters but also reinvigorating family scholarship on union formation and its implications for partners, children, and society.

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Cohabitation and Marriage: Complexity and Diversity in Union‐Formation Patterns

Sassler

Lichter

2020

J of Marriage and Family

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“…As the rise of the Internet has increasingly displaced traditional meeting venues for partners, such as school or the workplace, it may also transform the partnership market and change partnership formation and dissolution (Bellou, 2015;DiMaggio et al, 2001;Rosenfeld, 2017;Rosenfeld & Thomas, 2012). Using data from a 2010 representative survey on the United States, Rosenfeld and Thomas (2012) estimated that more than 20% of heterosexual individuals met their partners online, making the Internet the second most popular venue for meeting a partner (the most popular was meeting through friends).…”

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Meeting online and family-related outcomes: evidence from three German cohorts

Danielsbacka

Tanskanen

Billari

2020

Journal of Family Studies

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In recent years, the Internet has become an increasingly important venue for meeting partners. While meeting online may have a range of effects on family-related outcomes, studies on the link between meeting online and family-related outcomes are scarce. Using eight follow-up waves of the German Family Panel (Pairfam), with observations from 8177 persons from three birth cohorts between 2009 and 2016, this study investigates whether meeting online is associated with relationship satisfaction, intention to separate, separation, moving in together, intentions to have a child, and entry into parenthood. More specifically, a series of between-person regressions are used to compare those who met their partners offline and those who met their partners online. Results show that meeting online is associated with likelihood to separate and intentions to have a child in the youngest birth cohort, and transition to parenthood in the oldest birth cohort. These findings are discussed with the concepts of selectivity and intentionality in searching for and meeting partners online.

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“…According to a recent survey, nearly 40 million single people (out of 54 million) in the U.S. have been trying online dating, and about 20% of committed relationships began online [4]. Although some psychologists have questioned the reliability and effectiveness of online dating [5], recent empirical studies using the tracking data and survival analysis found that for heterosexual couples, meeting partners through online dating sites can speed up marriage [6]. Besides, one survey found that marriages initiated through online channels are slightly less likely to break than through traditional offline channels and have a slightly higher level of marital satisfaction for the respondents [7].…”

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Gender-specific preference in online dating

2019

EPJ Data Sci.

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In this paper, to reveal the differences of gender-specific preference and the factors affecting potential mate choice in online dating, we analyze the users' behavioral data of a large online dating site in China. We find that for women, network measures of popularity and activity of the men they contact are significantly positively associated with their messaging behaviors, while for men only the network measures of popularity of the women they contact are significantly positively associated with their messaging behaviors. Secondly, when women send messages to men, they pay attention to not only whether men's attributes meet their own requirements for mate choice, but also whether their own attributes meet men's requirements, while when men send messages to women, they only pay attention to whether women's attributes meet their own requirements. Thirdly, compared with men, women attach great importance to the socioeconomic status of potential partners and their own socioeconomic status will affect their enthusiasm for interaction with potential mates. Further, we use the ensemble learning classification methods to rank the importance of factors predicting messaging behaviors, and find that the centrality indices of users are the most important factors. Finally, by correlation analysis we find that men and women show different strategic behaviors when sending messages. Compared with men, for women sending messages, there is a stronger positive correlation between the centrality indices of women and men, and more women tend to send messages to people more popular than themselves. These results have implications for understanding gender-specific preference in online dating further and designing better recommendation engines for potential dates. The research also suggests new avenues for data-driven research on stable matching and strategic behavior combined with game theory.

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Marriage, Choice, and Couplehood in the Age of the Internet

Cited by 56 publications

References 32 publications

Cohabitation and Marriage: Complexity and Diversity in Union‐Formation Patterns

Cohabitation and Marriage: Complexity and Diversity in Union‐Formation Patterns

Meeting online and family-related outcomes: evidence from three German cohorts

Gender-specific preference in online dating

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