The Role of Cohabitation in Declining Rates of Marriage

Bumpass, Larry L.; Sweet, James A.; Cherlin, Andrew J.

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“…The early cohabitation period, however, is assumed to be particularly important, because people start sharing their eating environment, are confronted with their partner's preferences and food negotiations occur. Additionally, cohabitation before or without getting married has become an increasingly popular form of living status in Western societies (24)(25)(26) , and it seems more appropriate to concentrate on living status and its associations with health affairs instead of on the presence of a 'legal' relationship (27,28) .…”

Section: Moving In With a Partner And Cohabitationmentioning

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Time for change? Food choices in the transition to cohabitation and parenthood

Hartmann

Dohle

Siegrist

2014

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: We compared the dietary behaviour of three different household types and explored developmental trends in food choices following a life event. Design: The study is based on data from three Swiss Food Panel survey periods. A cross-sectional comparison between household types was conducted by using a one-way independent ANOVA. Repeated measures were analysed with a mixed ANCOVA to examine changes in dietary behaviour following a life event. Setting: Participants in the survey filled in a questionnaire in the years 2010, 2011 and 2012. Subjects: The final sample consisted of 3559 persons with a mean age of 56 years (range 22-94 years; 46 % men). Seventy-two people moved in with their partner and sixty-five people reported the birth of their first child. Results: Cross-sectional evidence confirmed that women living in households with a partner reported higher consumption frequencies for meat and processed meats compared with those living alone. Men living in cohabitation had a higher vegetable intake. The transitional effect of moving in with a partner, however, resulted in a higher intake of processed meats for both genders and a higher intake of pork and savoury items for men. Transition to motherhood was linked to an increase in vegetable consumption, while the transition to fatherhood did not change consumption patterns significantly. Conclusions: Individuals in life-stage transitions are more likely to change their nutritional strategies and life events can be a window of opportunity for changes towards better food choices. Keywords Moving in Marriage Life events HouseholdSocial influences and interactions embedded in our domestic environment seem to play an important and critical role in the development and regulation of our eating behaviour (1) . Efforts to implement changes in our daily eating routines fail not least because the domestic environment, which often remains constant over long periods, can trigger disadvantageous eating habits. Therefore, it is especially interesting to investigate special periods in a person's life that might be associated with adopting new eating patterns. To gain insights into the individual's dietary behavioural development over time and to detect factors triggering change, previous research has focused on special periods marked by major events in a person's life. Special life events such as childbearing, starting to cohabit with a partner or leaving home are powerful determinants of rapid changes in a person's domestic environment. They indicate transitions from one life stage to another, and are accompanied by the acquisition of new social roles and changes in family status and living environments (2,3) . These new life circumstances require behavioural adaptations in general, lead to changes in consumer behaviour in particular (4,5) and might also be linked to the acquisition of new nutritional strategies.

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Section: Moving In With a Partner And Cohabitationmentioning

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Time for change? Food choices in the transition to cohabitation and parenthood

Hartmann

Dohle

Siegrist

2014

Public Health Nutr.

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“…In addition to these technical issues, there are also substantive reasons to believe that reporting differences may vary by marital status. Cohabiting relationships among divorced women tend to last longer and be more stable than relationships among never-married women (Bumpass, Sweet, and Cherlin 1991). These relationships may therefore be perceived as more important by respondents, and they may be less subject to recall error.…”

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The quality of retrospective data on Cohabitation

Hayford

Morgan

2008

Demography

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“…The assumption here is that short-term jobs are not and are not experienced as economic independence. With regard to marriage, it is obvious that cohabitation has become more and more a 'functionally equivalent' state (Bumpass et al 1991) for younger cohorts so that marriage and cohabitation form a joint category here. As attaining the first degree and entering employment are closely connected, (only) the latter as the main event of transition to economic independence enters the multivariate models.…”

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From Old to New Structures: A Long-Term Comparison of the Transition to Adulthood in West and East Germany

Hillmert

2005

Advances in Life Course Research

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The Role of Cohabitation in Declining Rates of Marriage

Cited by 553 publications

References 8 publications

Time for change? Food choices in the transition to cohabitation and parenthood

Time for change? Food choices in the transition to cohabitation and parenthood

The quality of retrospective data on Cohabitation

From Old to New Structures: A Long-Term Comparison of the Transition to Adulthood in West and East Germany

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