Trends in cohabitation and implications for children's family contexts in the United States
Trends in cohabitation and implications for children's family contexts in the United States
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DOI：
10.1080/713779060
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发表时间：
2000-03-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Lu, HH
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作者：
Bumpass, L;Lu, HH
本文记录了美国越来越多的同居现象，以及这种趋势对儿童家庭生活的影响。婚姻关系（包括婚姻和同居）的稳定性有所下降-尽管离婚率保持不变。越来越多的儿童生活在同居家庭中，这要么是因为他们是同居父母所生，要么是因为他们的母亲加入了同居联盟。在1980- 1984年至1990- 1994年期间，未婚妇女在同居家庭中所生子女的比例从29%增加到39%，几乎占未婚生育增加的全部。因此，大约五分之二的儿童在同居家庭中生活一段时间，而由同居开始的家庭更不稳定，这意味着儿童也更有可能经历家庭破裂。根据多个州的生命表得出的估计数表明，儿童在同居家庭中的家庭生活越来越多，在已婚家庭中的家庭生活越来越少。
This paper documents increasing cohabitation in the United States, and the implications of this trend for the family lives of children. The stability of marriage-like relationships (including marriage and cohabitation) has decreased - despite a constant divorce rate. Children increasingly live in cohabiting families either as a result of being born to cohabiting parents or of their mother's entry into a cohabiting union. The proportion of births to unmarried women born into cohabiting families increased from 29 to 39 per cent in the period 1980-84 to 1990-94, accounting for almost all of the increase in unmarried childbearing. As a consequence, about two-fifths of all children spend some time in a cohabiting family, and the greater instability of families begun by cohabitation means that children are also more likely to experience family disruption. Estimates from multi-state life tables indicate the extent to which the family lives of children are spent increasingly in cohabiting families and decreasingly in married families.