Pre-Marital Cohabitation Factors: Evidence from Nigeria

Ariyo, Adijat Motunrayo

doi:10.12966/psbr.10.05.2013

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“…It should be noted, however, that four out of ten married persons in Ouagadougou, the capital city of Muslim dominated Burkina Faso, cohabited before their marriages (Calvès, 2016). Likewise, more than half of the respondents in a study on premarital cohabitation factors in Lagos, many persons in Nigeria cohabited before marriage (Ariyo, 2013). In Christian dominated countries such as Uganda, South Africa, and Ghana, it was found in the study that single parenthood and cohabitation are rampant.…”

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“…The findings are also confirmed by studies and reports which identified the marriage institution as an option for adulthood; and a precursor or alternative to marriage in many sub-Sahara African countries (Ntoimo et al, 2016;Popoola and Ayandele, 2019;Ryberg et al, 2015). Moreover, the increasing popularity of cohabitation could be due to its flexibility, opportunity for involved persons to test their compatibility, and the freedom to leave an unsatisfying relationship with less commitments than a marriage (Ariyo, 2013). These reasons explain why countries such as Uganda, South Africa, and Ghana recorded a higher prevalence of cohabitation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Cohabitation seems to offer cohabiting partners more flexibility in their relationships, opportunities to test their compatibility, and the freedom to leave an unsatisfying relationship than marriage which requires more commitment and is more difficult to dissolve (Ariyo, 2013). Therefore, many people think cohabitation will give them all the perks of marriage like interpersonal, intimate, and sexual relationships, and none of the downsides of marriage (Popoola and Ayandele, 2019).…”

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Single and Cohabiting Parent Family Systems: The New ‘Normal’ Family Structures?

Ayandele

Popoola²

2018

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Single-parenthood and cohabitation are becoming ‘trendy’ family structures in many African societies. Guided by the structural functionalism approach, types of family structures and the influence of globalisation on the African family structure were discussed. Secondary data from Demographic Health Surveys conducted in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda, as well as World Family Map and various studies from sub-Saharan African countries were also used to examine the prevalence of the married-couple, cohabiting-couple, and single-parent family structures, and the findings presented descriptively. Results show that single-parenthood is most common in South Africa and married-couple family structure is popular in Nigeria and Ghana whereas marriage, single-parenthood, and cohabitation recorded a comparable level of popularity in Uganda. In the study, it was discovered that cohabitation and single-parenthood have lost some stigma in many African societies and are becoming common and socially acceptable, especially among educated citizens and in Christian dominated countries on the continent. Society, governmental and non-governmental agencies, education and religious institutions, as well as clinical and social services, should be attuned to the currently diverse new ‘normal’ family systems.

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Single and Cohabiting Parent Family Systems: The New ‘Normal’ Family Structures?

Ayandele

Popoola²

2018

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“…(37). After their exclusion from the data, the effective women out of the youth (15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24) sample size became 6,142. (Fig.…”

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“…A comparative analysis reveals that cohabitated women die more frequently from cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, alcohol, and accident-related causes of death than those who are married (18). Cohabitation resulted in very likely experiences of abuse, exploitation, intimate partner violence, murder, and suicide (19)(20)(21). Due to the frequent lack of commitment and transient nature of the relationship, cohabiting female youths are frequently at risk for poor mental health following disagreements (22,23).…”

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Time to premarital cohabitations and its predictors among youth women in Ethiopia 2016 demographic and health survey, using parametric shared frailty model

Demis

Bekele

Eshete³

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Introduction In the second half of the 20th century, cohabitation became highly prevalent, especially among young women between the ages of 15 and 24. Nowadays, college students and young adults in sub-Saharan Africa often have unprotected sex and contract STDs, leading to most new HIV infections. The aim of this study is to assess the time to premarital cohabitation and its predictors among youth women aged 15–24 years using the 2016 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey. Method It is a secondary data analysis from a nationwide community-based survey. The data for this analysis was extracted from 2016 DHS data. Using STATA version 17 weighted, descriptive analysis of medians, percentiles, graphs, and frequency tables will be used to characterize the study participant. We use the Kaplan-Meier method and compare categorical predictor variables using the log-rank test. The best model for the data was selected by using Akaike information criteria. Finally, the adjusted hazard ratio or adjusted time ratio was used as a measure of effect size, with a 5% significant level and a p-value less than 0.05. Result The overall median age of premarital cohabitation was found to be 16 years (IQR, 15–18 years). The independent predictors of time to premarital cohabitation were: women's age (HR = 0.795; 95% CI: 0.761–0.868). 0.733 (95% CI: 0.607, 0.959) and 0.610 (95% CI: 0.589, 0.632) for primary, secondary, and higher education, respectively, among women who can read and write (HR = 0.896; 95% CI: 0.872, 0.920). Women with media access (HR = 0.722, 95% CI: 0.510, 0.963). Conclusion The most important idea is that educational level, access to media, age, and literacy are the most significant factors for the time-to-premarital cohabitation rate.

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Pre-Marital Cohabitation Factors: Evidence from Nigeria

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Single and Cohabiting Parent Family Systems: The New ‘Normal’ Family Structures?

Single and Cohabiting Parent Family Systems: The New ‘Normal’ Family Structures?

Time to premarital cohabitations and its predictors among youth women in Ethiopia 2016 demographic and health survey, using parametric shared frailty model

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