Race and the Retreat From Marriage: A Shortage of Marriageable Men?

Lichter, Daniel T.; McLaughlin, Diane K.; Kephart, George; Landry, David

doi:10.2307/2096123

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“…One of them may be related to an unfavourable marriage market for immigrants; the high unemployment rates of immigrants often translate into fewer opportunities for marriage for immigrant women. Under such circumstances, the literature on lone mothers in minority groups suggests that women may then put motherhood before marriage (Edin and Kefalas 2005;Lichter et al 1992;McLaughlin et al 1992). Another specific pathway to lone parenthood for immigrants may be related to the process of migration itself: an immigrant woman may enter the destination country while her male partner stays behind, either because he is entrapped in civil wars or because of time-lasting employment obligations in the country of origin (Landale et al 2011).…”

Section: Migration and Lone Parenthoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changing Lone Parents, Changing Life Courses

Bernardi

Mortelmans

Larenza

2017

Life Course Research and Social Policies

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The socio-demographic profile of lone parents has changed in the last decades. Being mostly widowed men and women or young single mothers until the 1970s, lone parents are nowadays mostly divorced and separated parents, even though they are still by and large mothers rather than fathers. As a consequence, the experience of lone parenthood has also dramatically changed. Less objects of pity or stigmatized with shame, lone parents and their children are more than ever bound by legal arrangements to the other parent and are caught in more dynamic family trajectories.There are at least two remarkable changes that certainly need to be addressed by research on lone parenthood: its boundaries and its diversity. Both aspects are connected and have potential implications for lone parents and their children. First, the diversity and complexity of legal and residential arrangements of parents and children make it difficult to establish the borders between a full-time and a part-time one-parent household. When child custody or parental authority are shared, can we still talk about lone parents? Children circulate more and more between two or more parental households after separation, and more than one parent may be financially and legally responsible for them. One direct consequence of such changes in the

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Section: Migration and Lone Parenthoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changing Lone Parents, Changing Life Courses

Bernardi

Mortelmans

Larenza

2017

Life Course Research and Social Policies

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“…Empirical studies generally support the view that, for men, unemployment, low earnings, and career 'immaturity' lead to delays in marrying. Evidence of this effect has been found both in the USA and in Europe, although it is somewhat less consistent in Europe (Lichter et al 1992;Lloyd and South 1996;Oppenheimer et al 1997;Smock and Manning 1997;Bracher and Santow 1998;Kravdal 1999;Liefbroer and Corijn 1999;Sassler and Schoen 1999;Sweeney 2002;Oppenheimer 2003;Xie et al 2003;Sassler and Goldscheider 2004;Blossfeld et al 2005).…”

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confidence: 96%

Has the reciprocal relationship between employment and marriage changed for men? An analysis of the life histories of men born in the Netherlands between 1930 and 1970

Kalmijn

Luijkx

2005

Population Studies

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“…Female BMI is found to be negatively correlated with husband's income, height, and education. Furthermore, Becker (1974) hypothesizes and numerous studies (e.g., Lichter et al (1991Lichter et al ( , 1992; Wilson and Neckerman (1986)) show that while males are evaluated in a marriage market by their wages and material possessions, women are typically sought after for non-monetary concerns, such as appearance and education. In a recent study of online dating responses, Chiappori et al (2012) found that women must compensate for an additional 2 units of BMI with an additional year of education.…”

Section: Ii1 Empirical Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%