Why are cohabiting relationships more violent than marriages?
Why are cohabiting relationships more violent than marriages?
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DOI：
10.1353/dem.2006.0007
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发表时间：
2006-02-01
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Mclanahan, SS
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作者：
Kenney, CT;Mclanahan, SS
为了应对美国同居现象的增加，研究人员最近将重点放在同居和婚姻之间的差异上。一项一致的调查结果是，同居夫妇的家庭暴力发生率高于已婚夫妇。对这一发现的一个突出解释是，同居受到一套不同于婚姻的制度化控制。本文探讨了另一种解释，即，在选择出同居和婚姻的差异，包括选择最暴力的同居夫妇结婚和最暴力的已婚夫妇离婚，导致观察到的同居夫妇之间的暴力率较高的横截面样本。我们的研究结果表明，研究人员在比较已婚夫妇和同居夫妇时应该谨慎，因为他们感兴趣的因变量与选择进入和退出关系状态有关。
In response to increases in cohabitation in the United States, researchers have recently focused on differences between cohabiting and marital unions. One consistent finding is a higher rate of domestic violence among cohabiting couples as compared with married couples. A prominent explanation for this finding is that cohabitation is governed by a different set of institutionalized controls than marriage. This article explores an alternative explanation, namely, that differences in selection out of cohabitation and marriage, including selection of the least-violent cohabiting couples into marriage and the most-violent married couples into divorce, lead to higher observed rates of violence among cohabiting couples in cross-sectional samples. Our results suggest that researchers should be cautious when making comparisons between married and cohabiting couples in which the dependent variable of interest is related to selection into and out of relationship status.