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- Title
Having a Premarital Birth Reduces the Likelihood A Woman Will Marry.
- Authors
Hollander, D.
- Abstract
This article presents the findings of an analysis of data from four large U.S. surveys which examined the experiences of women who gave birth as teenagers. The analysis found that having a premarital childbearing is generally not a choice women make because they expect not to marry. Rather, according to the analysis, it tends to be unexpected and unwanted, and reduces a woman's likelihood of marrying. That likelihood is further reduced if the woman receives welfare. The analysis also revealed that stigma associated with premarital childbearing does not appear to be an obstacle to marriage, and that the demands of parenthood seem not to impede women from participating in activities in which they may meet potential spouses. The researchers used data primarily from the National Survey of Family Growth, the National survey of Families and Households, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women, all of which gather information on cohabitation and marriage, fertility and an array of socioeconomic characteristics. Applying a hazard model to data from the four surveys, the investigators found a strong negative association between premarital childbearing and marriage.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SURVEYS; TEENAGE mothers; TEENAGE parents; MARRIAGE; YOUNG women
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1995, Vol 27, Issue 5, p221
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2136281