1999
DOI: 10.2307/353892
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Nonmarital Childbearing among Adult Women

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“…As Morgan and Rindfuss (1999) argued, because the occurrence, timing, and sequencing of fertility represent a "nonreversible event" that affects other behaviors (such as schooling and employment), early family-formation behaviors are very likely to affect later ones. A large literature supports this idea, with much of it focusing on fertility following a teenage birth (see, e.g., Hofferth 1987; Kalmuss and Namerow 1994;Ribar 1996) or a nonmarital birth (e.g., Driscoll et al 1999;Guzzo and Furstenberg 2007).…”
Section: Unintended Fertility and Subsequent Fertilitymentioning
confidence: 92%
“…As Morgan and Rindfuss (1999) argued, because the occurrence, timing, and sequencing of fertility represent a "nonreversible event" that affects other behaviors (such as schooling and employment), early family-formation behaviors are very likely to affect later ones. A large literature supports this idea, with much of it focusing on fertility following a teenage birth (see, e.g., Hofferth 1987; Kalmuss and Namerow 1994;Ribar 1996) or a nonmarital birth (e.g., Driscoll et al 1999;Guzzo and Furstenberg 2007).…”
Section: Unintended Fertility and Subsequent Fertilitymentioning
confidence: 92%
“…Much, but not all, of these disparities was rooted in the better socioeconomic circumstances of families headed by stably married parents. Given the degree to which children’s early achievement predicts their long-term educational attainment (Entwisle, Alexander, & Olson, 2005) and the extent to which educational attainment predicts the likelihood of having a nonmarital birth or an unstable relationship history in adulthood (Driscoll et al, 1999), these patterns indicate one vehicle—through early educational disadvantages—for the intergenerational transmission of family status and circumstances. Overall, therefore, evidence suggested that current family structure explained some of the observed birth status effects on early school achievement, but this explanatory power paled in comparison to socioeconomic circumstances like income and parent education.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…On one hand, women of lower socioeconomic status (SES) are more likely to have children outside marriage. On the other, children born outside of marriage fare worse on numerous developmental indicators than their peers, disrupting their own eventual socioeconomic attainment (Driscoll, Hearn, Evans, Moore, Sugland, & Call 1999; Gibson-Davis, Edin, & McLanahan, 2005; Wu & Wolfe, 2001). In this way, nonmarital fertility is a channel for the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic inequality.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Compared to the large body of research examining the link between family structure and women’s childbearing and family formation behaviors (Albrecht & Teachman, 2003; Driscoll et al, 1999; Hogan & Kitagawa, 1985; McLanahan & Bumpass, 1988; McLanahan & Sandefur, 1994; Powers, 1993; Wu, 1996; Wu & Martinson, 1993), we know significantly less about men. While our focus is on nonmarital childbearing rather than single parenthood (although the risk of spending time in a single-parent home is greater for those who are born to unmarried parents), several studies have focused on the influence of having a single parent on men’s childbearing behaviors.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 91%