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Separations

Health and mortality

Health before and after union dissolution among mothers, fathers and children

January 16, 2023January 16, 2023 Øystein Kravdal and Jonathan Wörn
Europe, Family, Norway, Separations

Norwegian register data indicate that parents’ mental health deteriorates prior to union dissolution but improves afterwards. In contrast, Øystein Kravdal and Jonathan Wörn note, children seem to experience a continued … Read more

Mobility, migration and foreigners

The role of non-resident family in migration after separation

June 3, 2021April 26, 2021 Amy Spring, Clara H. Mulder, Michael J. Thomas and Thomas J. Cooke
Americas, Family, Migration, Separations

Amy Spring, Clara H. Mulder, Michael J. Thomas, Thomas J. Cooke find that the presence of non-resident family plays an important role in separated people’s decisions to migrate within the … Read more

Families and households

Stability of U.S. couples with children in a comparative perspective

March 9, 2021September 24, 2018 Katherine Michelmore and Kelly Musick
Children, Demography, Divorces, Family, Separations

Cohabitation, nonmarital childbearing, and partnership dissolution are now common in the U.S. Katherine Michelmore and Kelly Musick examine patterns of union instability among couples who have had a child together, … Read more

Families and households

Stability of cohabiting unions in Europe

March 14, 2021July 16, 2018 Zuzana Zilincikova
Children, Europe, Family, Separations

The increasing popularity of cohabitation has opened a debate on the stability of cohabitations, and especially those in which there is a child. Zuzana Žilinčíková shows that cohabitations have a … Read more

Health and mortality

Unstable union history linked to higher childhood mortality risk

March 7, 2021October 30, 2017 Laurie F. DeRose
Children, Poverty, Separations, Women

The marriage-go-round can be a costly ride for children in post-industrial countries as family instability is associated with elevated risk of negative outcomes like teen pregnancy, depression, aggression, asthma, and … Read more

Families and households

The rise of divorce, separation, and cohabitation in the Philippines

March 6, 2021July 10, 2017 Jeofrey B. Abalos
Asia, Divorces, Marriage, Separations

“What God has put together let no man put asunder”. This biblical quote is frequently heard among Filipinos, particularly among the older generations, to discourage young people from leaving an … Read more

Families and households

Non-cohabiting relationships: mainly a transitional situation

March 5, 2021May 29, 2017 Arnaud Régnier-Loilier
Couples, Separations

Formerly synonymous with marriage, cohabitation has become a lasting form of union in France and this country is now among those where the practice is most widespread (Prioux 2009).Moreover, the … Read more

Education, work, economy (socio-economic differences)

Does parental separation increase inequality of educational opportunity?

March 4, 2021January 16, 2017 Fabrizio Bernardi and Diederik Boertien
Education, Separations, Youth

Our research (Bernardi & Boertien 2016a; 2016b) has led us to the conclusion that, while children growing up without one parent in the household do have lower educational attainment,family structure … Read more

Families and households

How does parental separation affect children’s day-to-day life?

March 4, 2021December 19, 2016 Marion Leturcq and Lidia Panico
Children, Education, Poverty, Separations

Parental separation increases children’s risk of poverty The proportion of children experiencing parental divorce or separation has increased across Western countries. As a result, in 2014 about 16% of children … Read more

Gender issues

Beyond mothers who father: the study of female headship

March 4, 2021November 7, 2016 Chia Liu
Americas, Children, Gender issues, Reproduction, Separations, Women, Work

More than half of a century has passed since Edith Clark first wrote “My Mother Who Fathered Me” in 1957, a classic study on single motherhood (marriage, sex, and concubinage) … Read more

Families and households

In France, second unions now more resilient than first

March 4, 2021July 18, 2016 Eva Beaujouan
Europe, Marriage, Separations

If at first you don’t succeed … The first union used to be the one that would last “until death do us part”. The transformation in partnership behaviour emerging in … Read more

Families and households

Better education has become a stabilizer of marriages in Taiwan

March 4, 2021July 11, 2016 Yen-hsin Alice Cheng
Asia, Children, Education, Marriage, Separations

While divorce is usually lower in Asian than in Western societies, a drastic rise in crude divorce rates has been reported in many East Asian countries in the recent past … Read more

Families and households

The changing American age curve of divorce

March 4, 2021April 26, 2016 Lowell L. Hargens
Americas, Divorces, Family, Household, Separations

The incidence of divorce, like the incidence of many other demographic phenomena, varies greatly across the life course. Divorce is most prevalent during young adulthood and relatively infrequent among the … Read more

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