Marriage and Cohabitation

By: Arland Thornton, William G. Axinn, Yu Xie

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Hardcover | 15 September 2007 | Edition Number 1

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In an era when half of marriages end in divorce, cohabitation has become more commonplace and those who do get married are doing so at an older age. So why do people marry when they do? And why do some couples choose to cohabit? A team of expert family sociologists examines these timely questions in Marriage and Cohabitation, the result of their research over the last decade on the issue of union formation.

Situating their argument in the context of the Western world’s 500-year history of marriage, the authors reveal what factors encourage marriage and cohabitation in a contemporary society where the end of adolescence is no longer signaled by entry into the marital home. While some people still choose to marry young, others elect to cohabit with varying degrees of commitment or intentions of eventual marriage. The authors’ controversial findings suggest that family history, religious affiliation, values, projected education, lifetime earnings, and career aspirations all tip the scales in favor of either cohabitation or marriage. This book lends new insight into young adult relationship patterns and will be of interest to sociologists, historians, and demographers alike.

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"Impressive... family demographers will find it invaluable, and other kinds of scholars and researchers will find it very useful. The authors point out that the predictors of entering into cohabitation and marriage are different, and they discuss how cohabitation may affect decisions about marriage.... The research reported here is important." - Noval D. Glenn, University of Texas at Austin"

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Historical and Conceptual Issues	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Historical Perspectives on Marriage	p. 24
Comparing Marriage, Cohabitation, and Being Single	p. 76
Entering Marital and Cohabiting Unions	p. 92
Parental Factors during Childhood and Adolescence	p. 113
Influence of Parental Youth Factors before Birth of Study Child	p. 115
Influence of Parental Factors during Childhood and Adolescence of the Children	p. 155
Parent and Child Factors during the Children's Young Adulthood	p. 181
The Courtship Process and Union Formation	p. 183
Religious Affiliation and Commitment	p. 210
The Influence of Attitudes, Values, and Beliefs	p. 225
Educational Influences	p. 265
Work, Earnings Potential, and Career Aspiration	p. 286
Integration and Summary of Effects	p. 303
Conclusions	p. 305
Technical Explanation of Estimation of Total, Direct, and Indirect Effects	p. 333
Conceptualizing and Estimating Union Formation Rates	p. 352
Description of Measures Used in Chapters 5 through 11	p. 356
Constructing Measures of Earnings Potential for Use in Chapter 11	p. 369
Notes	p. 373
Bibliography	p. 391
Index	p. 429
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