Union Dissolution in the United Kingdom

Chan, Tak Wing; Halpin, Brendan

doi:10.1080/15579336.2002.11770260

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“…This is an unexpected result which is the opposite of what would be expected based on most existing literature (Svarer and Verner, 2008). However, Chan and Halpin (2003) found similar results using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). To test whether our estimates of risks of divorce on union types were robust to the inclusion or exclusion of the children variable, we investigated models without it.…”

Section: < Table 4 Number Of Spousal Couples In 1991 and Proportion Osupporting

confidence: 53%

“…However, none of the studies focuses specifically on the dissolution of mixed ethnic unions. There has been a significant rise in the rates of union dissolution in western countries in the post-war period; in Britain the crude divorce rate increased more than 6 fold from 2 per 1000 in 1960 to about 13 per 1000 marriages in 2000 (Chan and Halpin 2003). This trend has largely been attributed to the increase in the economic independence of women, changes in public attitudes toward divorce, and the liberalisation of marriage legislation (Becker 1981;Kierman and Meuller 1999;Thornton 1989;Trent and South 1989).…”

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confidence: 93%

“…This trend has largely been attributed to the increase in the economic independence of women, changes in public attitudes toward divorce, and the liberalisation of marriage legislation (Becker 1981;Kierman and Meuller 1999;Thornton 1989;Trent and South 1989). Certain factors, such as getting married at a young age and premarital birth, are positively associated with dissolution, while higher income couples and those with higher qualifications have a lower risk of divorce (Chan and Halpin 2003;Kierian and Meuller 1999;Teachman 2002). Ethnicity is also associated with the risk of separation; studies from both the US and Britain find that Black populations have higher risks of divorce than Whites, while Asians usually have lower risks (Berrington 1996;Fu 2006;Heaton and Albrecht 1991;Teachman 2002).…”

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Les unions mixtes sont-elles plus fragiles que les unions entre partenaires de même origine ethnique? Nouveaux résultats pour la Grande-Bretagne

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The increasing proportion of ethnic minorities in Britain has been paralleled by an increase in the occurrence of mixed ethnic marriages between one White partner and an ethnic minority partner. Such marriages are thought to be at higher risk of divorce, but empirical studies so far have been inconclusive. This paper uses the Office for National Statistics longitudinal study for England and Wales to investigate whether mixed ethnic unions are more likely to end in divorce than co-ethnic unions. We followed married couples in 1991 to 2001 and examined their risks of divorce. We found evidence that mixed ethnic unions have a higher risk of dissolution than co-ethnic unions. However, after controlling for partners' characteristics, most importantly the younger ages of people in mixed ethnic unions, the risk of divorce for mixed ethnic unions was no longer elevated, but lay close to the higher risk found for the two constituent co-ethnic unions.

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Section: < Table 4 Number Of Spousal Couples In 1991 and Proportion Osupporting

confidence: 53%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Finally, the rising divorce rate since the 1970s meant that more married fathers stopped living with their children (ONS 2012c). Whereas children used to have a stabilizing effect on marriages, they have been found to increase divorce risks in more recent analyses (Chan and Halpin 2003). In the past, custody of children was usually awarded to mothers (Haskey 1996b) and most children stayed with their mothers after divorce.…”

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“…British studies about differences in the formation of non-marital cohabiting unions (Ermish 2005) and union dissolution (Berrington and Diamond 1999, Chan and Halpin 2003, Steele et al 2007) by level of education for women have reported positive effects of education on these events, or no effects. We abstain from a detailed review of these diverse findings because the gendered nature of marriage and cohabitation precludes the assumption that exactly the same pattern holds with regard to men"s level of education.…”

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Long-term trends of men’s co-residence with children in England and Wales

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2014

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Moving on and moving out: The implications of socio‐spatial mobility for union stability

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Graham

2018

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This study explores the role of family migration in the life course of couples. We ask whether internal migration and residential mobility for contemporary dual-earner couples has negative consequences for the stability of their partnership and investigate whether any negative changes in partners' employment characteristics following family migration are associated with higher risks of dissolution of their unions. We use the British Household Panel Survey, which provides nationally representative data on households and couples, over the period of 18 years and has a wide range of potentially important prospective and retrospective information on households and individuals.We undertake a duration analysis of union dissolution by modelling the hazard of union dissolution. The findings show that union stability is affected by spatial movesgeographically mobile couples are at higher risk of union dissolution. Long-distance internal migration and frequent moves increase the risk, whereas short-distance residential moves are associated with greater union stability. Overall, we found that the negative effect of family migration on union stability is relatively small and decreases over the time. Similarly, positive effects that some types of family migration might have on union stability also tend to decrease over the time. We found that the risk of union dissolution is better explained by partners' socio-demographic characteristics (age and level of education), and by the characteristics of their union such as its type and duration. Union stability is also associated with the employment and occupational characteristics of both partners, as well as with changes in these characteristics. Negative changes in occupational position or employment status of either partner, but especially of the male partner, increase the risk of union dissolution. However, the effect of changes in the employment characteristics of each partner on the union stability is relatively small and tend to disappear over the time. We found some evidence that the impact of the negative changes in employment characteristics of geographically mobile couples postmigration on the stability of their union is mediated by the gender of the partner who experienced these changes. Negative changes in the employment status of the male partner postmigration slightly increase the risk of union dissolution, whereas negative changes in female partner's employment postmigration slightly decrease that risk. We found that the risk to the union's stability is highest immediatelyThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Union Dissolution in the United Kingdom

Cited by 47 publications

References 12 publications

Les unions mixtes sont-elles plus fragiles que les unions entre partenaires de même origine ethnique? Nouveaux résultats pour la Grande-Bretagne

Les unions mixtes sont-elles plus fragiles que les unions entre partenaires de même origine ethnique? Nouveaux résultats pour la Grande-Bretagne

Long-term trends of men’s co-residence with children in England and Wales

Moving on and moving out: The implications of socio‐spatial mobility for union stability

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