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May 29, 2020 · The decline in marriage over the past 50 years has important implications for older African Americans, especially older African American women. First, unmarried older African American women are much more likely to live alone and they also have smaller informal social support networks than their married counterparts .
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Despite research on the dramatic changes in marriage, there...
- Dating for Older Women
Correlates of Dating. In their groundbreaking examination of...
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Aug 6, 2021 · Over the past few decades, marriage rates in the United States among African Americans continue to decline, yet African American women continue to express a desire to be married. Using a grounded theory qualitative approach with semi-structured interviews (N = 23), we explored marital attitudes among never married African American women ...
- Kendra P. DeLoach McCutcheon, Karen Y. Watkins, Eboni V. Burton, Arlaina C. Harris
- 2021
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There are approximately 67 older African American men for every 100 African American women aged 65 years or older (Mather, 2015). This sex ratio imbalance means that older African American women are significantly less likely to be married or in a romantic relationship, as compared to older women in other ethnic groups ( Tucker et al., 1993 ; U ...
Marriage rates are declining nationally across racial groups, but the drop is particularly dramatic among African Americans and, it is argued, especially consequential for black women, who studies show are at least three times more likely than their white female counterparts never to marry.
- Ann duCille
- 2018
Sep 27, 2021 · PDF. Tools. Share. Abstract. It is well documented that Black women tend to experience lower marriage participation than non-Black women because of the marriage squeeze, including an unequal sex-ratio within age cohorts, and the increase in economic precarity among Black men.
- LaToya D. Council
- 27 September 2021
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The result, according to The Decline in Marriage Among African Americans, is a greater share of family responsibilities being borne by women, an increased vulnerability to poverty and violence, and an erosion of community ties.
May 29, 2020 · Results: Four in 10 older African Americans are either married or cohabiting, 11% are unmarried but romantically involved, 9.5% are unmarried and not romantically involved but open to the possibility of a relationship, and 38% neither have nor desire a romantic involvement.
