Single and the City: State Influences on Intimate Relationships of Young, Single, Well‐Educated Women in Singapore

Strijbosch, Karlien

doi:10.1111/jomf.12221

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“…The evidence now indicates that growing shares of women in East Asian countries will never marry (Ji, ), even though sex ratio imbalances favor women (Raymo et al, ; Yu & Xie, ). It takes two to tango, yet the current emphasis on women's preferences or on their “independence” often occurs in isolation of men's economic circumstances or marital aspirations (e.g., Kim & Cheung, ; Strijbosch, ). Recent journalistic accounts reveal, however, that never married men also experience shame and stigma over remaining “bare branches” (Denyer & Gowlen, ).…”

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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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Section: Research Themesmentioning

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

Sassler

Lichter

2020

J of Marriage and Family

197

140

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“…With some exceptions-for example, Thailand and the Philippines (Abalos 2014)-premarital sex and cohabitation remain rare, and marriage continues to form the lynchpin of individual life course (Strijbosch 2015). However, the institution of marriage has not been left untouched by the social and economic transformations discussed earlier.…”

Section: Changing Marriage Patternsmentioning

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Families in Southeast and South Asia

2018

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Southeast and South Asia are home to one-third of the world's population. Their great economic and cultural diversity makes generalization about family patterns and trends hazardous. We review literature on trends in fertility, marriage, divorce, and living arrangements in the past half century. The explanations for these trends focus on structural and ideological changes related to socioeconomic development; cultural factors including kinship system, religion, and ethnicity; and public policies. While the impact of rapid modernization and related ideational changes are evident, there are also changes—or a lack thereof—that cannot be explained by development and may be attributable to historical and cultural factors that have shaped family norms in the region. The following trends are evident: ( a) fertility is declining and age at marriage is rising, although teenage and arranged marriages remain common in South Asia, ( b) a majority of the elderly continue to live with or are supported by their children, and ( c) divorce and out-of-wedlock childbearing remain relatively rare.

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“…The Housing and Development Board (‘HDB’) has a large volume of flats reserved for married couples and provides various financial assistance to reduce the cost of buying houses; however, being single is disincentivised, as singles can purchase a subsidised HDB flat only if they are 35 years of age or older. In Singapore, marriage and housing are so closely related that a marriage proposal ‘will you marry me?’ is often paraphrased as ‘do you want a flat?’ (Strijbosch, 2015 ). As a result, marriage intentions may not only be driven by true romantic love but also by housing incentives.…”

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Decomposing the crude divorce rate in five countries: Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, the UK, and Australia

Chen

Yip

2018

Asian Population Studies

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Over the past few decades, the level of divorce, measured by the crude divorce rate (CDR), has increased dramatically in both the East and the West, but has recently appeared to fall or level off in some countries. To investigate whether the recent decline or stabilisation of the CDRs reflects the real trends in divorce risk, a decomposition analysis was conducted on the changes in the CDRs over the past 20 years on two western and three East Asian countries, namely, the UK, Australia, Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore. The following is observed: the decline in the CDRs of the UK and Australia in the 1990s, and of Taiwan and Korea in the 2000s, was mainly due to shrinkage in the proportion of the married population rather than any reduction in divorce risk; only Australia experienced a genuine reduction in divorce risk between 2001 and 2011; and the continuous increase of Singapore’s divorce level between 1990 and 2010 may be is an unintentional effect of the government’s marriage promotion policies. The shift in the population age structure, and more importantly, the drastic decline in marriage, has seriously distorted the CDRs, making them unreliable indicators for monitoring divorce trends.

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Single and the City: State Influences on Intimate Relationships of Young, Single, Well‐Educated Women in Singapore

Cited by 19 publications

References 26 publications

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

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

Families in Southeast and South Asia

Decomposing the crude divorce rate in five countries: Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, the UK, and Australia

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