Historical Marriage Trends from 1890-2010: A Focus on Race Differences
Historical Marriage Trends from 1890-2010: A Focus on Race Differences
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1890-2010 年的历史婚姻趋势：关注种族差异
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2010
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Rose M. Kreider
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Diana B. Elliott;K. Krivickas;M. Brault;Rose M. Kreider
公共言论经常谴责社会对婚姻的退缩——认为婚姻是一个日益过时的机构（时代杂志/皮尤研究中心，2010）。 1950 年代被描述为美国婚姻的“黄金时代”，但自 1960 年代以来，婚姻数量开始下降（Coontz 2000/1992；Cherlin 2009/2004）。在本文中，我们从更长远的角度审视了按性别和种族划分的婚姻史，利用十年一次的人口普查数据描述了 35 岁和 45 岁及以上未婚人群的趋势，以及历史初婚年龄中位数。我们发现 20 世纪 50 年代和 1960 年代对于男性和女性来说是一个反常现象，因为年轻时结婚的比例很高。种族差异尤其有趣，因为在第二次世界大战之前，黑人女性比白人女性更容易结婚，但自 20 世纪 80 年代以来，黑人女性结婚的可能性越来越小。
Public rhetoric often decries a societal retreat from marriage – that it is an increasingly obsolete institution (Time Magazine/Pew Research Center 2010). The 1950s have been described as the “golden age” of marriage in the United States and marriage has declined since the 1960s (Coontz 2000/1992; Cherlin 2009/2004). In this paper, we take a longer view of the history of marriage by sex and race, describing trends among those never married at age 35 and age 45 and older, and historical median ages at first marriage using Decennial Census data. We find that the 1950s and 1960s were an anomaly for men and women given the high proportions married at young ages. Race differences are particularly interesting, as black women were more often married than white women prior to World War II, yet since the 1980s, have been increasingly less likely to be married.