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- Title
Marital Roles and Declining Marriage Rates.
- Authors
Ellman, Ira Mark
- Abstract
The article focuses on the study conducted by sociologist Kathy Edin of the University of Pennsylvania regarding the increasing rate of single motherhood which reflects a declension of marriage rate in Pennsylvania. Accordingly, Edin presents a table which shows the declining marriage rates from 1969 to 1988 because the age at first marriage has also been rising, In addition, she has also found that poor women in urban ghettos have a hard time to find men they want to marry because men are in short supply. Moreover, the finding shows evidence that declining marriage rates do not originates from any declining interest in being married.
- Subjects
PENNSYLVANIA; MARITAL status statistics; MARRIAGE; MAN-woman relationships; MARRIAGE law; MARITAL quality; INTERPERSONAL relations; FAMILY policy; MARRIED people; EDIN, Kathy; UNIVERSITY of Pennsylvania
- Publication
Family Law Quarterly, 2007, Vol 41, Issue 3, p455
- ISSN
0014-729X
- Publication type
Article