MARRIAGE AND THE MARITAL CONTEXT OF FERTILITY

婚姻和生育的婚姻背景

• 批准号: 6202035
• 负责人: LINDA J WAITE
• 金额: $ 10.66万
• 依托单位: RAND CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-07-01 至 2003-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6202035
• 关键词: academic achievement; adolescence (12-20); age at pregnancy; attitude; behavioral /social science research tag; divorce /separation; employment /unemployment; family planning; family structure /dynamics; female; fertility; gender difference; human data; human subject; interview; longitudinal human study; marriage /marital status; mathematical model; peer group; population survey; psychological values; racial /ethnic difference; sex behavior; single person; socioeconomics; statistics /biometry

Patterns of family formation have changed dramatically over the decades since the Second World War: Rates of divorce and separation have risen almost linearly; first marriages have shifted to older ages; and more couples begin their relationships with cohabitation rather than marriage. This project is intended to improve understanding of the influence that cohabitation has on the occurrence and timing of marriage, fertility, and marital disruption and that children have on stability of marriages. We will address two basic questions: (1) Are consensual unions just like marriage without the legality or are they fundamentally different? (2) What are the reasons that people choose cohabitation rather than marriage, and why do some dissolve these unions and some proceed to marry? We test two key hypotheses that together bear on these questions: (a) Cohabitations follow the same process of disruption that marriages do. (b) Fertility within consensual unions follows the same process as childbearing within marriage. We see the initial choice as depending, in part, on choices about prospective parenthood and on the person's view of the future of the relationship. If we find no difference between consensual and marital unions in patterns of stability and patterns of childbearing, then we have substantial evidence that, in two very important ways, cohabitational unions are equivalent to marriage. We address these issues of initial choice, stability, and fertility in a series of models that, together will provide detailed picture of the role of consensual unions in contemporary U.S. society. Data for the study come from the National Longitudinal Study of the Class of 1972 and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics,

几十年来，家庭形成模式发生了巨大变化 第二次世界大战以来：离婚和分居率上升 几乎呈线性；初婚年龄已转向老年；还有更多 夫妻关系的开始是同居而不是婚姻。 该项目旨在提高对影响的理解 同居对​​婚姻、生育和生育的发生和时间有影响 婚姻破裂以及孩子对婚姻稳定性的影响。 我们 将解决两个基本问题：（1）自愿结合是否就像 婚姻不合法还是有根本不同？ (2) 人们选择同居而不是结婚的原因是什么？ 为什么有些人解散这些结合而有些人继续结婚？ 我们测试了两个与这些问题相关的关键假设：(a) 同居遵循与婚姻相同的破坏过程。 (二) 自愿结合内的生育遵循与 婚内生育。 我们认为最初的选择取决于 部分，关于未来父母的选择以及个人的观点 关系的未来。 如果我们发现两者之间没有区别 稳定模式和稳定模式中的自愿结合和婚姻结合 生育，那么我们有充分的证据表明，在两个非常 重要的是，同居结合等同于婚姻。 我们 解决这些初始选择、稳定性和生育力问题 系列模型，共同提供角色的详细图片 当代美国社会中双方同意的婚姻。 研究数据 来自 1972 届全国纵向研究和 收入动态小组研究，