Cross-National Comparisons of Union Stability in Cohabiting and Married Families With Children.
Cross-National Comparisons of Union Stability in Cohabiting and Married Families With Children.
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有子女的同居家庭和已婚家庭的婚姻稳定性的跨国比较。
DOI：
10.1007/s13524-018-0683-6
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发表时间：
2018
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3.5
通讯作者：
Michelmore,Katherine
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作者：
Musick,Kelly;Michelmore,Katherine
在大多数西方国家，同居、非婚生育和解除伴侣关系的增加重塑了家庭格局。美国有许多其他地方常见的家庭变化的特征，尽管它的特殊之处在于高度的工会不稳定。在这项研究中，我们使用《和谐历史》对在美国和几个欧洲国家一起生了孩子的夫妇的婚姻不稳定进行了丰富的描述性描述。首先，我们比较了同居父母和已婚父母在教育、既往家庭经历和第一个孩子的年龄方面的国内差异。其次，我们估计同居父母和已婚父母在稳定性方面的差异，关注出生时同居的父母过渡到婚姻的情况。最后，我们探讨了父母特征差异对婚姻不稳定的影响，以及不同国家之间婚姻不稳定的社会阶层差异的程度。尽管类似的因素与各国工会的不稳定有关，但一些因素(生育前、早育)在美国要普遍得多，这在一定程度上解释了较高比例的分离。与工会不稳定相关的因素--教育程度较低、有过生育经历、早育--在美国也往往比其他地方被更严格地包装，这表明在儿童资源方面存在更大的不平等。
Increases in cohabitation, nonmarital childbearing, and partnership dissolution have reshaped the family landscape in most Western countries. The United States shares many features of family change common elsewhere, although it is exceptional in its high degree of union instability. In this study, we use the Harmonized Histories to provide a rich, descriptive account of union instability among couples who have had a child together in the United States and several European countries. First, we compare within-country differences between cohabiting and married parents in education, prior family experiences, and age at first birth. Second, we estimate differences in the stability of cohabiting and married parents, paying attention to transitions into marriage among those cohabiting at birth. Finally, we explore the implications of differences in parents’ characteristics for union instability and the magnitude of social class differences in union instability across countries. Although similar factors are associated with union instability across countries, some (prior childbearing, early childbearing) are by far more common in the United States, accounting in part for higher shares separating. The factors associated with union instability—lower education, prior childbearing, early childbearing—also tend to be more tightly packaged in the United States than elsewhere, suggesting greater inequality in resources for children.