Social Class Divergence in Family Transitions: The Importance of Cohabitation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study examined trends in familial transitions by maternal education and whether transitions rose because of changes in prevalence (the share of children exposed to a relationship state, either marriage or cohabitation) or churning (the number of entrances and exits conditional on being exposed to a relationship state).

Background

Children's experiences of transitions, an important predictor of well-being, have leveled off in recent decades. Plateauing in transitions may reflect heterogeneity by socioeconomic status.

Method

Data came from the National Survey of Family Growth on firstborn children observed from ages 0 to 5 among mothers aged 15 to 34 at the time of the child's birth (N = 7,265). Kitagawa methods decomposed changes in transitions into thos

SUBMITTER: Rackin HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6656368 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature