Partner Choice and the Differential Retreat from Marriage

Autor/inn/en	Schoen, Robert; Cheng, Yen-Hsin Alice
Titel	Partner Choice and the Differential Retreat from Marriage
Quelle	In: Journal of Marriage and Family, 68 (2006) 1, S.1-10 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2445
DOI	10.1111/j.1741-3737.2006.00229.x
Schlagwörter	Marriage; African Americans; Racial Relations; Whites; Socioeconomic Influences; Attitude Change; Racial Differences; Educational Attainment; North Carolina; United States; Virginia; Wisconsin + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ehe; Afroamerikaner; White; Weißer; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Rassenunterschied; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; USA
Abstract	The contemporary retreat from marriage in the United States has had a differential impact across socioeconomic and racial groups. Here, 1990 marriage rates and propensities for Virginia, North Carolina, and Wisconsin are analyzed regarding (a) the likelihood that persons in different groups ever marry and (b) patterns of partner choice with respect to race and educational level. Marriage remains strong in most race-education groups but is substantially lower among Blacks and among those with less than 12 years of education. Patterns of partner choice have shifted to show greater symmetry between the educational levels of brides and grooms. Changes have been modest with regard to the level and pattern of interracial (Black-White) marriage. Marriage is increasingly a union of equals, but a union chosen more by Whites than by Blacks and more by the well educated than by the poorly educated. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10