Divorce, living arrangements, and material well-being during the transition to adulthood in rural Malawi
Divorce, living arrangements, and material well-being during the transition to adulthood in rural Malawi
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DOI：
10.1080/00324728.2018.1545919
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发表时间：
2019-05-04
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Pike, Isabel
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作者：
Grant, Monica J.;Pike, Isabel
在本文中，我们使用纵向数据来调查父母死亡和离婚如何影响年轻妇女自己的经验，在马拉维，妇女结婚相对较早，工会是脆弱的离婚。我们发现，孕产妇死亡和父母离婚与年轻女性离婚呈正相关，但在控制了社会人口和婚姻特征后，只有与孕产妇死亡的关联仍然具有统计学意义。母亲和父亲的死亡都与妇女离婚后的生活安排密切相关，这反过来又影响到她们的物质福利。这一发现表明，年轻时离婚决定了妇女今后的生活机会;虽然有些妇女回到娘家，可能有机会重新过渡到成年期，但其他妇女开始20多岁就成为自己的户主，在物质上处于相当不利的地位。
In this paper, we use longitudinal data to investigate how parental death and divorce influence young women's own experience of divorce in Malawi, a setting where women marry relatively early and unions are fragile. We find that maternal death and parental divorce are positively associated with divorce for young women but, after controlling for socio-demographic and marital characteristics, only the association with maternal death remains statistically significant. Maternal and paternal death are both strongly associated with women's post-divorce living arrangements, which in turn affects their material well-being. This finding suggests that divorcing at a young age shapes the subsequent life chances of women; although some women return to their parental home and may have the opportunity to reset the transition to adulthood, other women begin their 20s as head of their own household and with considerable material disadvantage.