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- Title
Union Formation Expectations Among Older Adults Who Live Apart Together in the USA.
- Authors
Wu, Huijing; Brown, Susan L.
- Abstract
There is an ongoing debate over whether living apart together (LAT) relationships are simply long-term relationships or alternatives to cohabitation or marriage. This study examined cohabitation and marriage expectations among older adults who LAT in the United States to address the debate. The analyses also compared the marriage expectations of older adults who LAT and cohabitors. Using data from the 2011 Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS), we examined the union expectations of 250 individuals who LAT and 234 cohabitors. After providing a demographic portrait of older adults who LAT, we used ordered logistic regression models to predict their cohabitation and marriage expectations. Additional models predicted marriage expectations for older adults who LAT versus cohabitors. Older adults who LAT were unlikely to expect to formalize their unions. Adults who LAT were less likely to expect marriage than cohabitors. LAT relationships appear to be long-term partnerships in the United States.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MARRIAGE &; psychology; MENTAL health; SURVEYS; INTERPERSONAL relations; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; INTENTION; STATISTICAL sampling; DATA analysis software; LONGITUDINAL method
- Publication
Journal of Family Issues, 2022, Vol 43, Issue 10, p2577
- ISSN
0192-513X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0192513X211031518