Marriage Timing of Chinese American and Japanese American Women

Abstract

"Using U.S. census data, this study examines the differences in marriage rates and timing among White, Chinese American, and Japanese American women. An accelerated time model estimates the duration until marriage for each racial-ethnic group while controlling for nativity, education, birth cohort, ancestry, and English proficiency. Results show that White women have the shortest duration until marriage, with a smaller percentage remaining never married. Chinese American and Japanese American women delay first marriage longer and have higher percentages of never married women."

Culture, Modernization, and Politics: Ethnic Differences in Union Formation in Kyrgyzstan

“…Thus, studies have documented differences in patterns of union formation between whites and blacks and other minorities in the US (Bennett et al 1989;Ferguson 1995;Lichter et al 1992;Raley et al 2004;Schoen and Kluegel 1988) and the UK (Berrington 1994). Much of the 5 The large gender difference in the percentage married among Russians may be due to a combination of the migration-related sex imbalance, a higher divorce rate among that group and gender differences in the likelihood of remarriage.…”

Determinants of Singlehood: a retrospective account by older single women in Lagos, Nigeria

“…Marital experiences of other women, such as, divorce and unhappy marriage have been found to influence marital decisions of never married women (Lamanna & Riedmann, 2003;Sharp & Ganong, 2011). Past studies link blissful or conflictual parents marriage (Ferguson, 2000), and single parents' household (Forsyth & Johnson, 1996) to decisions that lead to singlehood. The findings on the influence of urbanisation and city life confirms studies that associate increasing number of older never married women to urban life (Isiugo-Abanihe, 2000;Berg-Cross et al, 2004) and men's preference for consensual relationship to difficulty in sole breadwinning (Dowd andPallotta, (2000 cited in Lamanna &Riedmann, 2003;Iwasawa, 2004;Dykstra and Poortman 2010).…”

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“…Prominent among the family background factors is marriage of significant others such as parents, guardians and other close relatives, birth order, domestic violence, divorce and separation. Conflictual and unhappy parents' marriage is found to have negative effect on daughter's desire and opportunity to marry in ways that prolong marital delay and lead to permanent voluntary or involuntary singlehood (Ferguson, 2000;Siegel, 1995;WaKaranja, 1987). Growing up in a mother-only family is linked to remaining single.…”

“…This definition excludes religious celibates and women who are never married as a result of disability. Most women marry for the first time in their 20s, therefore, many demographers and family scholars use the age marker of 30 or 35 years to distinguish younger never married women from older ones (Ibrahim and Hassan, 2009;Macvarish, 2006;Byrne 2003;Simpson, 2003;Ferguson, 2000). In societies such as Nigeria where marriage is strongly associated with motherhood, marriage after age 30, which is the upper limit of the most fecund years, for women, is considered late.…”