Nonmarital Childbearing among Adult Women

Driscoll, Anne K.; Hearn, Gesine; Evans, Victoria; Moore, Kristin Anderson; Sugland, Barbara W.; Call, Vaughn R. A.

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“…As Morgan and Rindfuss (1999) argued, because the occurrence, timing, and sequencing of fertility represent a "nonreversible event" that affects other behaviors (such as schooling and employment), early family-formation behaviors are very likely to affect later ones. A large literature supports this idea, with much of it focusing on fertility following a teenage birth (see, e.g., Hofferth 1987; Kalmuss and Namerow 1994;Ribar 1996) or a nonmarital birth (e.g., Driscoll et al 1999;Guzzo and Furstenberg 2007).…”

Section: Unintended Fertility and Subsequent Fertilitymentioning

confidence: 92%

Fertility Following an Unintended First Birth

Guzzo

Hayford

2011

Demography

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Research on unintended fertility tends to focus on births as isolated events. This article expands previous research by examining the relationship between early unintended childbearing and subsequent fertility dynamics in the United States. Data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth show that 27.5% of mothers report an unintended first birth. We use event history methods to show that these women are significantly more likely than women with an intended first birth to have an unintended second birth than to have either no second birth or an intended second birth, net of sociodemographic characteristics. An unintended first birth also increases the risk of having an unintended third birth relative to no birth or an intended birth, independent of the intendedness of the second birth. We conclude that early unintended fertility is a strong signal of high risk for subsequent unintended fertility.

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Section: Unintended Fertility and Subsequent Fertilitymentioning

confidence: 92%

Fertility Following an Unintended First Birth

Guzzo

Hayford

2011

Demography

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“…Much, but not all, of these disparities was rooted in the better socioeconomic circumstances of families headed by stably married parents. Given the degree to which children’s early achievement predicts their long-term educational attainment (Entwisle, Alexander, & Olson, 2005) and the extent to which educational attainment predicts the likelihood of having a nonmarital birth or an unstable relationship history in adulthood (Driscoll et al, 1999), these patterns indicate one vehicle—through early educational disadvantages—for the intergenerational transmission of family status and circumstances. Overall, therefore, evidence suggested that current family structure explained some of the observed birth status effects on early school achievement, but this explanatory power paled in comparison to socioeconomic circumstances like income and parent education.…”

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“…On one hand, women of lower socioeconomic status (SES) are more likely to have children outside marriage. On the other, children born outside of marriage fare worse on numerous developmental indicators than their peers, disrupting their own eventual socioeconomic attainment (Driscoll, Hearn, Evans, Moore, Sugland, & Call 1999; Gibson-Davis, Edin, & McLanahan, 2005; Wu & Wolfe, 2001). In this way, nonmarital fertility is a channel for the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic inequality.…”

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Nonmarital Fertility, Family Structure, and the Early School Achievement of Young Children From Different Race/Ethnic and Immigration Groups

Crosnoe

Wildsmith

2011

Applied Developmental Science

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Working from a life course perspective, this study examined the links between mothers’ fertility and relationship statuses and children’s early school achievement and how these links varied by race/ethnicity and immigration status. Analyses of nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study—Kindergarten Cohort revealed that children born to unmarried women scored lower than children of married women on math tests in kindergarten and first grade. This pattern was most attributable to associated differences in family income and parent education, and it was moderated by women’s marital and relationship statuses after having their children. Evidence also suggested that the academic risks of some family structure pattern relative to continuously married parents might have been more pronounced for White children.

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“…Compared to the large body of research examining the link between family structure and women’s childbearing and family formation behaviors (Albrecht & Teachman, 2003; Driscoll et al, 1999; Hogan & Kitagawa, 1985; McLanahan & Bumpass, 1988; McLanahan & Sandefur, 1994; Powers, 1993; Wu, 1996; Wu & Martinson, 1993), we know significantly less about men. While our focus is on nonmarital childbearing rather than single parenthood (although the risk of spending time in a single-parent home is greater for those who are born to unmarried parents), several studies have focused on the influence of having a single parent on men’s childbearing behaviors.…”

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“Like Parent, Like Child?”: The intergenerational transmission of nonmarital childbearing

Högnäs

Carlson

2012

Social Science Research

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Data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (N=11,180) are used to examine the intergenerational transmission of nonmarital childbearing for U.S. men and women. Findings suggest that being born to unmarried parents increases the risk of offspring having a nonmarital first birth, net of various confounding characteristics. This intergenerational link appears to particularly operate via parents’ breaking up before offspring are age 14 and offspring’s young age at first sex. While the link across two generations in nonmarital childbearing is not accounted for by parents’ socioeconomic status (measured as fathers’ education), several mediating factors vary by socioeconomic background. Gender and race/ethnicity also moderate the intergenerational transmission of nonmarital childbearing. This research sheds light on the prevalence of, and process by which, nonmarital childbearing is repeated across generations, which has important implications for long-term social stratification and inequality.

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Nonmarital Childbearing among Adult Women

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Fertility Following an Unintended First Birth

Fertility Following an Unintended First Birth

Nonmarital Fertility, Family Structure, and the Early School Achievement of Young Children From Different Race/Ethnic and Immigration Groups

“Like Parent, Like Child?”: The intergenerational transmission of nonmarital childbearing

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