Partner choice in marriages and cohabitations
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A study by the Department of Population Dynamics, John Hopkins University, using data from the National Survey of Families and Households, suggests that cohabitation is a relationship distinct from marriage and not merely an informal marriage relationship. Partner choice gives more emphasis to short-term and achieved characteristics, such as education, than to long-term and ascribed characteristics, such as age, religion and race.
Publication Name: Journal of Marriage and the Family
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 0022-2445
Year: 1993
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Do fertility intentions affect fertility behavior?
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Certainty of intentions, rather than timing expectations, has the most significant impact on fertility, according to research into the connection between fertility intentions and fertility behaviour. There was found to be only a limited mediating role for either variable. It has been established that fertility is purposive behaviour based on intentions. It is adapted when unexpected developments take place.
Publication Name: Journal of Marriage and the Family
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 0022-2445
Year: 1999
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Marital happiness and household equity in later life
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A study by the Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Albany, using 1987-88 data from the National Survey of Families and Households about 1,353 couples aged 50 and above, revealed that perceived fairness of the equity of household labor is related to marital happiness only for wives. Employment was not related to to marital happiness.
Publication Name: Journal of Marriage and the Family
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 0022-2445
Year: 1993
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- Abstracts: Premarital cohabitation and marital instability: a test of the unconventionality hypothesis. The influence of intimate violence on transitions out of cohabitation
- Abstracts: Historical changes and life course variation in the determinants of premarital childbearing. Mate availability and the transition to unwed motherhood: a paradox of population structure