Time-Related Determinants of Marital Dissolution

Heaton, Tim B.

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“…Age at marriage is consistently found to have a strong impact on the propensity to separate or divorce, with lower ages at marriage being associated with higher risks of marital disruption (Heaton 1991;Teachman 2002). Research suggests that the association can be partly explained by confounding factors, such as parental divorce and low educational attainment (Kiernan 1986).…”

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A review of the antecedents of union dissolution

Lyngstad¹,

Jalovaara²

2010

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Section: Age Period and Cohortmentioning

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A review of the antecedents of union dissolution

Lyngstad¹,

Jalovaara²

2010

DemRes

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“…It is also meant to capture the various cultural, socioeconomic, and political factors that may have impacted the life experiences of these women. Earlier research has shown that more recent generations are more likely to have experienced marital dissolution than older generations (Heaton 1991). Thus, it is hypothesized that the most recent cohort of Filipino women will exhibit a greater likelihood of having experienced union dissolution than their older counterparts.…”

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Divorce and separation in the Philippines: Trends and correlates

Abalos¹

2017

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BACKGROUNDThe Philippines is the only country in the world, aside from the Vatican, where divorce is not legal. Despite the lack of divorce law in the country and the high costs of obtaining an annulment, recent data shows that a growing number of Filipinos dissolve their marital unions, either legally or informally. OBJECTIVESI document the rise of union dissolution cases in the Philippines, and investigate the different factors associated with Filipino women's experience of union dissolution. METHODS Data is drawn RESULTSResults reveal that education, type of first union, and childhood place of residence are significantly associated with being divorced or separated among women in the Philippines. Filipino women with higher levels of education, those who were cohabiting without ever marrying in their first union, and those who were raised in urban settings have higher risks of experiencing union dissolution than their counterparts. Religion and ethnicity are also associated with union breakdown among Filipino women. CONTRIBUTIONThis paper demonstrates that the rise in union dissolution in the Philippines has not happened in isolation. It has to some extent been influenced by the changing character of union formation in the country, the prevailing legal system, a growing acceptance of divorce, increasing education for women, and increasing urbanization.

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“…In other instances, when data, such as the Current Population Survey, containing information on divorce across a broader range of historical time have been utilized, it has been common for researchers to account for historical shifts in the risk of divorce by simply adding a control for marriage cohort (or some other indicator of historical time) in their models (Bumpass, Martin, and Sweet 1991;Heaton 1991;Lehrer and Chiswick 1993;Waite and Lillard 1991). The implicit assumption has been that any historical change in the risk of divorce affects all marriages equally.…”

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Stability across Cohorts in Divorce Risk Factors

2002

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Over the past quarter-century, many covariates of divorce have been identified. However, the extent to which the effects of these covariates remain constant across time is not known. In this article, I examine the stability of the effects of a wide range of divorce covariates using a pooled sample of data taken from five rounds of the National Survey of Family Growth. This sample includes consistent measures of important predictors of divorce, covers marriages formed over 35 years he increased prevalence of divorce, combined with its well-known consequences for the well-being of men, women, and children (Amato 2000;Cherlin, Chase-Lansdale, and McRae 1998;McLanahan and Sandefur 1994), has spurred efforts to understand its determinants. Using various methods and data from different historical periods, researchers have linked numerous social, demographic, and economic variables to divorce. DaVanzo and Rahman (1993), Faust and McKibben (1999), and White (1990) reviewed this extensive literature. The list of variables considered is long and the results have varied, but a small number of sociodemographic variables have been linked consistently to the risk of divorce. These variables include age at marriage, education, premarital births and conception, religion, parental divorce, and race.Unfortunately, little research has attempted to ascertain whether the determinants of divorce are invariant across historical time even though there are reasonable theoretical, albeit slimmer empirical, grounds for expecting the effects of various predictors of divorce to vary across time. In my study, I tested the equality of effects across time using a pooled sample of data taken from five rounds of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG); the NSFG included consistent measures of important predictors of divorce, covered marriages formed over 35 years , and spanned substantial historical variation in the overall risk of marital dissolution. With the exception of race, I found that the effects of the major sociodemographic predictors of divorce do not vary across time. These results indicate that the effects of historical period have been pervasive, at least over the period covered by this research. WHY SHOULD EFFECTS VARY OVER HISTORICAL TIME?There is no generally accepted theory of divorce, although the predominant perspectives all rely on some notion of the exchange of expressive and instrumental goods and services between husbands and wives (Becker 1991;Becker, Landes, and Michael 1977;Oppenheimer 1994Oppenheimer , 1997Ruggles 1997). The assumption is that marriage is beneficial because mutual interdependence generated by exchange increases the well-being of each *Jay D. Teachman, Department of Sociology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225-9081; E-mail: teachman@cc.wwu.edu. I thank Kyle Crowder, Mick Cunningham, and the anonymous reviewers for their many helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article.

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Time-Related Determinants of Marital Dissolution

Cited by 71 publications

References 20 publications

A review of the antecedents of union dissolution

A review of the antecedents of union dissolution

Divorce and separation in the Philippines: Trends and correlates

Stability across Cohorts in Divorce Risk Factors

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