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ERIC Number: EJ945203
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Dec
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0197-6664
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Relationship-Specific Investments, Family Chaos, and Cohabitation Dissolution Following a Nonmarital Birth
Kamp Dush, Claire M.
Family Relations, v60 n5 p586-601 Dec 2011
Predictors of two types of cohabitation dissolution, dissolution with a continued romantic relationship and without (i.e., breakup), were examined using data from mothers cohabiting at the time of a nonmarital birth in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 1,624). Life tables indicated 64% of unions dissolved within 5 years; of these, 76% broke up. Black mothers had the highest rates of dissolution. Maximum likelihood discrete-time event history results revealed that younger mothers were more likely to experience cohabitation dissolution into a breakup. Fewer relationship-specific investments and more family chaos were also associated with greater risk of cohabitation dissolution into a breakup. Mothers' multipartnered fertility and fewer relationship-specific investments were associated with greater risk of cohabitation dissolution with a continued romantic relationship. Postdissolution, mothers who maintained a romantic relationship were more likely to reenter a union with their former partner whereas mothers whose union broke up most often remained so.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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