When unwed mothers marry - The marital and cohabiting partners of midlife women
When unwed mothers marry - The marital and cohabiting partners of midlife women
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DOI：
10.1177/0192513x06295200
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发表时间：
2007-05-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Lichter, Daniel T.
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作者：
Graefe, Deborah Roempke;Lichter, Daniel T.
促进婚姻和双亲家庭作为减少对福利依赖的一项战略，仍然是1996年福利改革的一项主要公共政策目标。基于这样的假设，即妇女将嫁给有工作的男子，她们的收入将使贫穷的母亲及其子女摆脱对政府的依赖，这一目标提出了重要的政策问题。在这篇文章中，作者调查了未婚母亲——在所有福利母亲中占很大比例——与经济上有吸引力的男性进入并保持稳定的同居和婚姻关系的程度。利用1995年全国家庭成长调查中3872名女性的关系历史的回顾性数据，作者研究了未婚母亲的婚姻生活过程，并记录了她们的伴侣在中年时的社会和经济特征。他们的婚姻搜索模型显示，非婚生育与嫁给经济上有吸引力的男性并维持长期婚姻关系的能力呈负相关。
The promotion of marriage and two-parent families as a strategy to reduce welfare dependency continues to be a major public policy goal of the 1996 welfare reform. Based on the assumption that women will marry employed men and that their earnings will lift poor mothers and their children from public dependency, this objective raises important policy questions. In this article, the authors investigate the extent to which unwed mothers-a large proportion of all welfare mothers-enter into and maintain stable cohabiting and marital relationships with economically attractive men. Using retrospective data on relationship histories for 3,872 women from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth, the authors examine the marital life course of unwed mothers and document the social and economic characteristics of their partners at midlife. Their marital search model shows that nonmarital childbearing is adversely associated with the ability to marry economically attractive men and maintain long-term marital unions.