The Role of Perceived Racial Discrimination in the Marriage Gap Between Black and White People

Hearne, Brittany N.; Talbert, Ryan D.; Hope, Ashleigh Rene

doi:10.1080/01494929.2020.1737622

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“…First, the current chronic stress measure did not take into account such chronic stress exposures as racial discrimination due to the data limitation. Reportedly, perceived racial discrimination is related to worse intimate relationship outcomes (Hearne et al, 2020). Hearne et al (2020) argued that perceptions of racial discrimination among Black populations are associated with empirical social, economic, and material disadvantages that accumulate over the life course to influence a romantic relationship.…”

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“…Reportedly, perceived racial discrimination is related to worse intimate relationship outcomes (Hearne et al, 2020). Hearne et al (2020) argued that perceptions of racial discrimination among Black populations are associated with empirical social, economic, and material disadvantages that accumulate over the life course to influence a romantic relationship. Kim et al (2020) found that the increase in the chronic stress effect on PTB with maternal age was steeper among those who perceived racial discrimination.…”

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Different maternal age patterns of preterm birth: Interplay of race/ethnicity, chronic stress, and marital status

Kim

2021

Research in Nursing & Health

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The aim of this study was to examine whether the preterm birth (PTB) risks according to maternal age is altered by a woman's marital status and chronic stress among non-Hispanic (N-H) White, N-H Black, Hispanic, and Asian women. This researcher analyzed the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System data for New York City and Washington State linked with the birth certificates for 2004-2007. The sample included 6344 singleton live births without birth defects to women aged 18 years or older identified as N-H White, N-H Black, Hispanic, or Asian. The outcome was PTB. Maternal age-specific PTB rates were calculated according to race/ethnicity, marital status, and chronic stress. Linear trends of PTB rates with maternal age were evaluated by the Mantel-Haenszel χ 2 test. Marriage had a protective effect against PTB at advancing maternal age across racial/ethnic groups. The health benefit of marriage was strong, particularly among the married N-H Black and Asian women, manifested as a maternal age-related decrease in the PTB rate (reverse-weathering). In contrast, women not married showed a maternal age-related increase in the PTB rate (weathering) across the racial/ethnic groups.Under higher chronic stress, married women generally experienced less weathering about PTB. These patterns were observed with noticeable racial/ethnic variations.Acknowledging the different dynamics among maternal age, marital status, and chronic stress by race/ethnicity could help shed light on the psychosocial mechanisms underlying the racial/ethnic inequalities in PTB in the United States. To that end, future studies should use more nuanced measurements of paternal support and chronic stress.

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Different maternal age patterns of preterm birth: Interplay of race/ethnicity, chronic stress, and marital status

Kim

2021

Research in Nursing & Health

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“…They are evident in the distress and dissolution of young adults' nonmarital relationships. Recent work by Hearne et al (2020) suggests that Black young adults, relative to their older peers, may be protected somewhat from the relational consequences of perceived racial discrimination. The current findings suggest they are not totally protected, if protected at all.…”

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Racial discrimination and the weathering of nonmarital relationships

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J of Marriage and Family

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Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of perceived racial discrimination on the satisfaction and dissolution of different-gender, nonmarital relationships among African American young adults. Background: Racial discrimination has proven detrimental to relationship quality among married couples. Racial disparities in relationship processes begin long before marriages form, however. Racial discrimination may also weather and disrupt nonmarital relationships earlier in the life course. Method: Survey data from African American young adult couples (N = 407) from the Family and Community Health Study were used to assess the associations between each partner's experience of racial discrimination, relationship satisfaction, and relationship dissolution using structural equation modeling.Results: Results support a stress spillover perspective in that racial discrimination experienced by both men and women increased the likelihood of relationship dissolution through reduced satisfaction. No support was found for a stress buffering perspective. Conclusion: Racial discrimination appears to distress and, ultimately, disrupt nonmarital relationships among African American young adult couples. Implications: Given the roles of relationship quality and stability in promoting health and well-being, understanding how discrimination impacts the unfolding of relationships, or linked lives, across the life course is essential to untangling and addressing the "chains of disadvantage" identified by Umberson et al. (2014) as central to racial disparities in health and well-being.

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“…Studies on fertility differences by educational level within marriages are inconclusive (Hayford, Guzzo and Smock 2014;Rindfuss and Parnell 1989). The decline in marriages in the United States have impacted black women the most (Hearne, Talbert and Hope 2020). Hispanic and White women have similar first marriage and divorce rates, but the remarriage rates of Hispanic women are lower (McNamee 2018).…”

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The interplay of race/ethnicity and education in fertility patterns

2022

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This study examines the racial/ethnic and educational disparities in fertility for U.S.women born during 1960-80. Using data from the National Survey of Family Growth from 2006 to 2017, we apply a regression-based approach to estimate 1) cohort total fertility rates, 2) parity progression ratios, and 3) parity-specific probability of having a birth by age, for non-Hispanic Whites, non-Hispanic Blacks, and Hispanics by educational attainments. We find that compared to their White counterparts, Black and Hispanic women with less than a high school education have higher fertility. However, among college educated women, Blacks have the lowest fertility levels, whereas Hispanics have the highest. The difference in fertility between Black and White college educated women is mainly driven by the smaller proportion of Black mothers having second births. We find little evidence that the observed racial disparities in fertility levels across educational levels are driven by differences in fertility timing.

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The Role of Perceived Racial Discrimination in the Marriage Gap Between Black and White People

Cited by 8 publications

References 62 publications

Different maternal age patterns of preterm birth: Interplay of race/ethnicity, chronic stress, and marital status

Different maternal age patterns of preterm birth: Interplay of race/ethnicity, chronic stress, and marital status

Racial discrimination and the weathering of nonmarital relationships

The interplay of race/ethnicity and education in fertility patterns

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