Who marries and when? Age at first marriage in the United States: 2002

Goodwin, Paula Y.; McGill, Brittany S.; Chandra, Anjani

doi:10.1037/e565202009-001

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“…This threshold allows for all individuals in the analysis to have potentially completed college or entered their first marriage or cohabiting union (17, 18, 19). Based on data from the 2006–10 NSFG Manning et al found that the median age at first union for women was 22.2 years; median age at first marriage was 26.5 years and first cohabitation was 21.8 years (20).…”

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“…Impaired fecundity, the second NSFG-based measure of fertility problems, is defined for all women regardless of relationship status and recent coital and contraceptive patterns, and encompasses problems with pregnancy loss as well as with conception. Trends for these two separate measures of fertility problems have been published elsewhere (19, 24, 25, 26, 27). Although the composite measure reflects current status, the impaired fecundity component in particular may represent a continuing perception based on past experience of being unsuccessful in conceiving or carrying to term without medical assistance, even if overcome at some point with medical assistance.…”

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Supply of and demand for assisted reproductive technologies in the United States: clinic- and population-based data, 1995–2010

Stephen

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King

2016

Fertility and Sterility

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Objective To study national-level trends in ART treatments and outcomes, as well as the characteristics of women who have sought this form of infertility treatment. Design CDC registry data of clinics and pooled data from three cycles (1995, 2002, and 2006–10) of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), a repeated nationally representative, cross-sectional survey of women aged 15–44 years. Setting Population based. Patients CDC: All reporting clinics from 1996–2010. NSFG: For the logistic analysis, the sample includes 2,325 women aged 22–44 who have ever used medical help to get pregnant, excluding women who used only miscarriage prevention services. Interventions None. Main Outcome Measures CDC data: number of cycles, live birth deliveries, live births, patient diagnoses. NSFG data: individual utilization of ART procedures. Results Between 1995 and 2010, utilization of ART increased. Parity and age are strong predictors of utilizing ART procedures; other correlates are higher education, having had tubal surgery, and having a current fertility problem. Conclusions The two complementary data sets highlight the trends of ART utilization. Increase in the utilization of ART services over this time period is seen in both data sources; nulliparous women aged 35–39 are the most likely to have ever used ART services.

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Supply of and demand for assisted reproductive technologies in the United States: clinic- and population-based data, 1995–2010

Stephen

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King

2016

Fertility and Sterility

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“…3 More than 5% of ever-married women were married before the age of 18 years, of whom 1 in 9 were married at the age of 14 years. This finding confirms that the prevalence of child marriage is lower in the United States than in low-or middle-income countries, where the prevalence of child marriage is estimated to be 40% to 50%.…”

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“…3 In the United States, all except 2 states require both members of a couple to be 18 years of age or older to marry without parental consent, but most states allow marriage before the age of 18 years with parental or judicial consent. However, the relatively low prevalence of child marriage in Western countries may explain why most research on child marriage has been conducted in low-and middle-income countries.…”

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Child Marriage in the United States and Its Association With Mental Health in Women

2011

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WHAT'S KNOWN ON THIS SUBJECT:The prevalence of child marriage (marriage at Ͻ18 years of age) in Western countries is considered to be low. Although child marriage has a devastating impact on health, no study has yet evaluated the impact of child marriage on mental health. WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS:The prevalence of child marriage among women in the United States was 8.9%. Child marriage was associated with higher rates of lifetime and 12-month psychiatric disorders. In addition, women who married as children were more likely to seek health services. abstract OBJECTIVE: Despite the devastating impact of child marriage (marriage before the age of 18 years) on health, no study has yet evaluated its impact on mental health in the general adult population. This article presents nationally representative data on the prevalence, sociodemographic correlates, and psychiatric comorbidity of child marriage among women in the United States. METHODS:Data were drawn from the 2001-2002 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. We limited our analyses to the sample of women (N ϭ 24 575) with a known age at first marriage, of whom 18 645 had been or were presently married. RESULTS:The prevalence of child marriage among women was 8.9%. Demographic factors associated with child marriage were black and American Indian/Alaska Native ethnicities, age at interview of Ͼ45 years, low educational level, low income, and living in the South and rural areas of the United States. The overall lifetime and 12-month rates of psychiatric disorders were higher for women who married as children, compared with women who married as adults. In addition, women who married as children were more likely to seek and access health services, compared with women who married in adulthood. CONCLUSIONS:Child marriage increases the risk of lifetime and current psychiatric disorders in the United States. Support for psychiatric vulnerabilities among women married in childhood is required.

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“…In the United States, changing fertility practices have resulted in decreased births (Sutton et al, 2011) and increases in age at first birth (Mathews & Hamilton, 2009), age at first marriage (Goodwin et al, 2009), cohabitation (Cherlin, 2010), and the percentage of total fertility due to non-marital fertility (Ventura, 2009). In lay terms, these rapidly changing patterns of fertility and family formation are commonly attributed to the “sexual revolution” of the 1960s.…”

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Genotype × Cohort Interaction on Completed Fertility and Age at First Birth

2014

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Microevolutionary projections use empirical estimates of genetic covariation between physical or psychological phenotypes and reproductive success to forecast changes in the population distributions of those phenotypes over time. The validity of these projections depends on relatively consistent heritabilities of fertility-relevant outcomes and consistent genetic covariation between fertility and other physical or psychological phenotypes across generations. However, well-documented, rapidly changing mean trends in the level and timing of fertility may have been accompanied by differences in the genetic mechanisms of fertility. Using a sample of 933 adult twin pairs from the Midlife Development in the United States study, we demonstrate that genetic influences on completed fertility and age at first birth were trivial for the 1920 to 1935 birth cohort, but rose substantially for the 1936 to 1955 birth cohort. For the 1956 to 1970 birth cohort, genetic influences on completed fertility, but not age at first birth, persisted. Because the heritability of fertility is subject to change dynamically with the social context, it is difficult to project selection pressures or the rate at which selection will occur.

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Who marries and when? Age at first marriage in the United States: 2002

Cited by 32 publications

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Supply of and demand for assisted reproductive technologies in the United States: clinic- and population-based data, 1995–2010

Supply of and demand for assisted reproductive technologies in the United States: clinic- and population-based data, 1995–2010

Child Marriage in the United States and Its Association With Mental Health in Women

Genotype × Cohort Interaction on Completed Fertility and Age at First Birth

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