Socioeconomic Differences According to Family Arrangements in Chile

Salinas, Viviana

doi:10.1007/s11113-011-9206-5

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“…I describe here the main variables considered in the multivariate analysis, namely, relationship and socioeconomic status and the aforementioned child-related variables. The distribution of the variables for this analytic sample generally follows the same patterns as the distribution in the complete sample at baseline (Salinas 2011). About thirty percent of the women in the sample were married at the first birth, 45 percent were cohabiting, 18 percent were dating the baby's father, and about 8 percent had ended the relationship with the baby's father.…”

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“…The fertility decline started in the mid-sixties, and today, the total fertility rate is 1.76 (INE 2015). The proportion of children born outside of marriage has greatly increased over the last few decades, going from 16 percent of children born outside of marriage in the mid-1960s to 68 percent in 2010 (Salinas 2011). The crude marriage rate reached a peak of about 9 per thousand in the 1930s, and then remained relatively unchanged until the 1960s, when it started to show a slight decrease, which has accelerated since the 1990s.…”

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“…One track offers technical training and serves mainly the middle and low-income population, whereas the other track offers college education and graduate studies. School enrolment is virtually universal during the compulsory period, but postsecondary education is still not prevalent, even though the economic returns to postsecondary education in Chile are high (for further details, seeSalinas 2011).…”

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Changes in Cohabitation After the Birth of the First Child in Chile

Salinas

2015

Popul Res Policy Rev

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In Chile, as in other Latin American countries, most children born outside of marriage are born to currently cohabiting couples. After having their first child, parents could marry, separate, or experience no change in union status. This paper explores changes in cohabitation that occur after the birth of the first child in Chile and analyzes how these changes might be associated with the birth of children and socioeconomic status. The data come from the New Chilean Family Survey, a small longitudinal survey administered to women after giving birth (n = 564). I use life tables and event history techniques to assess changes in respondent union status up to 4 years after the birth of the first child, and to study the transitions out of cohabitation. The results indicate that the unions in the sample are relatively stable, because less than 40 percent of cohabiters change status over the period of 4 years. However, marriage still appears to be a more stable type of union than cohabitation. Among cohabiters, there is evidence of a nonlinear relation between union stability and educational attainment, because the most stable unions are the unions of women with a high school diploma and not the unions of women who did not complete their secondary education. Having planned the first birth and the birth of an additional child seems to consolidate the cohabiting union, because these variables are not related to the entry into marriage, but they are related to lower risks of dissolution. These findings suggest that the Chilean case differs from the cases of Europe and the United States.

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Changes in Cohabitation After the Birth of the First Child in Chile

Salinas

2015

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“…Because many couples prefer to live together without being married (Salinas 2011), in April 2015 the senate approved the law of civil union, which is a contract between two people who share a household (Ministerio Secretaría General de Gobierno 2015). Only a year has passed since the enactment of the law, so there are currently no studies that describe the characteristics and motivations of those who choose this type of union over marriage.…”

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Social Contract on Elderly Caregiving in Contemporary Chile

Salazar

2017

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This paper explores the definitions of social contract on elderly caregiving among a group of seven Chilean aging experts. The data show that for Chileans, family remains a strong institution that should provide care of its members, with daughters or daughters-in-law being the preferred person to provide care. Also, age segregation, along with the gradual privatization of services such as health care and the pension system, promotes individuality: this can become a problem for future generations because they are no longer concerned with helping others.

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“…This explanation is consistent with the postulates of the SDT. However, it has always been recognized that the SDT's theoretical apparatus will not likely fi t perfectly in societies that have still not solved the problem of material needs and must address these needs simultaneously as they begin to face higher order needs (Cabella et al 2005 ;Salinas 2011 ;Ramm 2013 ) At the end of the 2000s, the controversy between social disintegration and SDT as explanations for the increase in cohabitation became diluted. This dilution can probably be explained by the lack of appropriate data that link union formation patterns and ideational change.…”

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